Ch-ch-ch-changes

I've had a huge upheaval in my life just this past weekend. It came on so strongly and was so all-encompassing that it seemed like I'd been missing an important piece in my crazy life and someone just handed it to me and said, "This should help everything make sense now." And it does.

Two days after my birthday, bright and early on a Friday morning, I received a message in a bottle, floating in a sea of other bottled messages that had arrived (this happens every time I post a blog or a new pic... or sign in, for that matter). Why this one stood out was because of how simple and effortless the conversation began, but had all the key elements that showed he'd done his homework.


Date: Dec 14 - 6:02am
Subject: You are correct!

That lighting bolt thingy IS alot of fun. It's like I found my perfect video game. I would have never of thought to push it had I not been inexplicably re-drawn back to your profile and read everything on your profile page.

Mark Hamel looks less like a lesbian and more like he's been hanging with the summer stock crowd for way too long.

I think you should definately not take your profile down. Not yet, anyway. It's too good to just take down. Like public art that only a few people know about. Say your attached or something if you're trying to deflect impossible matches. Or give me another week to make sure I didn't miss anything.

You are "un-wooable."


You may not see the genius of this message, but that's simply because you're not meant to see it. It is for me and me alone. My first thought was, "Wow, why do I feel as if this is a correspondence from a friend I've known forever?" So I compared our profiles and immediately felt that if we did know each other, he'd be part of my tightest circle of friends.



Then I followed the trail of breadcrumbs, investigating his music tastes and realized that it read like a playlist from my own iPod. I stalked him a little further (to Myspace) and what I found made me think it was a crime that we weren't already part of each other's lives, when it seemed as though we were already totally connected, so I set about to rectify that.

We got to know each other at a good clip... not too slow, not too fast... email quickly gave way to IM, which then just as easily gave way to phone. Each time we conversed, it was as if we just dropped into a conversation already in progress -- a dialog that had been going on our whole lives... effortless, exhilarating, silly, amazing.

When we met 2 weeks after first contact, we spent a day together discovering hidden treasures, thoroughly enjoying each other's company, and allowing the butterflies between us to leave on their own. And when we embraced at last, it was as if I was learning for the first time how a hug was supposed to feel. I would tell you more, but I'm sure that I can't do it any justice.

In just 2 days, I've experienced the deepest comfort and most complete sense of understanding I've ever had... and life as I'd known it has been irrevocably changed.


"You gave me some really good advice in your first message to me and I believe that I'm finally going to take it." -- TheSheCreature to AlphaDolt, while changing profile status to "seeing someone" (December 30, 2007).