I made a new friend recently. We met via the internet (shocking, I know), we got to know each other via plain old fashioned kindered spiritness and conversation, and we've made many plans to further our mutual appreciation. Drenched in a steady stream of friendship break-ups lately, I'm SO refreshed (or I guess dried off?) to have something that isn't clouded by the comfort of familiarity, isn't mangled in pre-tense or that "niceties" barrier we all are affixed to out of safety and time constraints. Comfortable, exciting connection to another human is a missing piece of the identity puzzle, and I feel very fortunate to have snapped it into it's long dormant place.
I watched Atonement this weekend (I know it's old news, but movies like that they happen when they are most useful), awed once again by the tender nuance of James McAvoy and a bit haunted by the loneliness a tragic love story ushers in. After I listened to my "Mopin' It" mix a few dozen more times and let the saddies out, I realized there's no need to feel that way. Having someone you are fond of to write letters to (or in my case text movie quotes to) when in doubt of the world or just in daily strife and struggle...that's what romance is, no matter who it's with. The feeling that the world isn't a heavy burden, but a boundless playground. The eager anticipation of seeing that person again. With any luck you won't suffer the fate of Robbie and Cecelia (torn apart by juvenile vindictiveness and war), but even if you do, at least you had moments of levity and love. Platonic or otherwise. We could all due with more, don't fight it with neurosis if it happens along.
I don't know what's in the cards for myself and the caped crusader of nerd-dom I happily consider my newest Bro Montana...but I'm super stoked to find out. I have a feeling this one will be McConaughey/Armstrong/Gyllenhaal good.
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The connection of two people, no matter who, how or when, is one of life's wonderful treats. We all go along, day by day, with the same routines and same events and then. boom, it happens. It could be a small, change incounter, or a more concentrated one, like the Bromance, but either one is not appreciated any less than the other. Another human agrees with or compliments a thought or idea,observation, or theeory and it somehow completes the process in ourselves. We don't have to have anyone comment etc. to qualify ourselves to ourselves..but so nice to know in this whole wide world there is another human that took notice and spoke up...for the long term or the short. May it all flow as it should!!
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