Dali

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine recently when you walked into the bar. I don’t know if she noticed me waving at you. I know I could’ve left my seat and greeted you instead. But it was something she said. She was telling me about her last romance. How when it ended she would’ve done anything to get it back. She would’ve done anything at all to be with the person she was leaving. What stopped her was, the conversation they had afterwards. After two years of no contact—no calls, no messages, no emails, no being around anybody that may have even coincidentally seen the other—they sat down over a drink to talk about things they don’t talk about with anybody else. That conversation helped them understand that this wasn’t what they really wanted. That had they continued to be together, they would’ve been around different people than they know now, experienced different things than they do now, etc which would have prompted them to be different people than the people they are now. I guess that’s what stopped me from leaving my seat to talk to you. That you were with different people, having different conversations, different experences, and that I may not have liked that. I may not have liked the person you are now. I may have not liked the person I would have become while you became that person.

Anyway, we talked and talked and talked.

I mentioned I’d go home and write about it.

I’m writing this for you, and for me. I’m writing you a reminder that wherever you are now, it’s exactly where you need to be. That it’s important to be in this moment. That it’s important to remember how you got here, but just as important to not live in the rear-view of things. Otherwise, you won’t see what’s coming… and it may just be the most important season of your life.