Serendipity. (421 hits)
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Submitted by living under stars (View user info) at 2004-10-11 22:28:38 EDT
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Serendipity - The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
Day one- I don't know why you called. Sure, we politely traded numbers on spring break, but I never expected either of us to follow through on it. Somehow though, we jumped past the normal small talk that we both had found so common in our lives. For once, we each found someone to listen. Three hours later, we were both exhausted and ready to hang up the phone. Even only having but of a taste of what the other person was like, we had each found something special.
End of week one - Your voice has become the highlight of my day. I'm surprised at myself. I never knew I had so much to say. So many seeds of thought had been left in the dirt untended. You watered them and listened as they broke through the surface. And then, just as I thought you couldn't relate, you told the same story. Maybe we have more to offer each other than we each knew in the beginning. I needed someone to listen to me, and you needed to hear what I had to say. In fact, you wanted to hear what I had to say.
End of first month - Spring is in full bloom now, and I've never noticed it like I am now. I can't help but smile and daydream during class. No one has ever affected my thought process like this before. In truth, no one ever listened to me. It was always the other way around. I never knew what it felt like to be content. Now I know why. For the first time, I can go home and know that someone is there, on the phone, waiting for me. I can walk outside late at night and stare at the stars, and hear your voice speak lightly in my ear. I saw two stars that appeared the same right next to each other, it paralleled us perfectly. I can't help be reminded of you when I see them.
End of second month - I told you I loved you. I don't know why. In fact, I didn't even plan on saying it. It was clear, in our first awkward silence, that you hadn't planned on hearing it. Why you reacted how you did is beyond me. I haven't seen you in two months. I fell in love with who you are. No physical attraction was there to create a hidden agenda. I guess it doesn't matter now. We talk less, and your image fades from my head every day. God, I'm slipping back to feeling numb. Those two stars constantly taunt me, a reminder of what I've lost.
Summer- You've disappeared altogether from my life. I suppose I'm over it now. It took me a while to overcome the sorrow, but I've realized how dear you still are to me. I've come to realize that what I came to appreciate is still there. The warmth of the sun, the soft breeze, the cool grass, and the countless stars have worked their way back into my life. I guess I'll never be able to properly thank you for it. I've grown a lot talking to you and learned accordingly. I've learned that love, true love between two people, can teach the strangest of things. Love is fire growing upon fire, in which both flames combine to make a flame bigger than each was capable of becoming alone. And as long as I carry you with me, what you taught me will never be extinguished.
Fall - A way into the college year you call me. So you deactivated your phone when you went to Spain and you wanted to see how I was doing? Three hours later we were finished describing how we were and decided to call it a night. And on a semi-regular basis you've been talking to me since.
It's rare to find someone unlooked for once, but it's even more rare to find the same person unlooked for twice.
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