Good morning, Tuesday. I'm feeling open yet closed at the same time today, know what I mean? Have you ever felt both excited and exhausted at the same time? Just in a bit of a rut and trying not to give it too much power and channel the more excited sense of my being...so I thought I'd talk about how crazy strange life and love can be and how the possibilities are all there for you.
So my husband got a story published on CityLink yesterday- it was a story he did a reading for some time back at this Miami literary event (yes people read here- I was surprised too). It's a great tale of midsummer debauchery, once upon a time in New Jersey. It's a fun story, woven with bits of Dr. Dre throughout, the soundtrack of his adventures, with his best friend in tow, in 1998.
Now of course, I'm touting the story, plugging it even, because it's damn good and funny as hell. But as I read it for the first tme I realized how trippy it is that the person you end up spending your life with not only had a very full life before he/she met you, but was running a life concurrent to yours. I say this because I remember where I was in the summer of 1998, not very far from where David was, in New York City, working in advertising and dating someone who I was not so much into. I myself was not so into Dre, but was definitely enjoying my own share of hip hop, more of the Biggie variety, as he'd been gunned down a year before and I was still very much a fan.I think it's fascinating how you can live somewhere, fully immersed in your life and your music and your bullshit, and never once realize that someday you are going to meet somebody that is going to change your life, change how you see, maybe even show your some stuff that you will never forget- and it will be that person that makes sense, that feels right, that you not only feel right with, but makes you feel right in your own skin. But there's no way to know when that moment's coming, so content yourself, if you are single, that in some parallel universe- across the ocean, river, or sidewalk could be the ONE. And every moment that you have lived in your life up until that chance encounter has prepared you for it- all the crappy jobs, all the demented love affairs with damaged goods, and all the nights spent wondering where in hell this person was and when they would show up.
So as you read this amazing tale of his, maybe think about how we are all existing here together, on seperate paths that may end up converging. If you're already spoken for, have your mate tell you a good story about themselves today, before they met you and before you started having exciting weekends full of runs to Target and the Container Store. And if you're single, and you're thinking about your workday, how to break up with that psycho bitch who won't leave you alone, or what time you're going for a run tonight, think of this instead- somewhere along one of those journeys/life lesssons could be your future, either in New Jersey or Namibia. You simply never know, and that's what makes life confusing and absolutely great. In the meantime though, read this story. It's brilliant and funny and a fabulous glimpse at my love before we met. Link below. And that's what's up this aligned Tuesday in the MIA. It's all happening I suppose, just maybe not here today, though I take comfort in knowing cool things are happening all around me, in the most unexpected of ways. XO
http://citylinkmix.com/more/lip-service-stories-chronically-dumped/