Thirty plus years ago I was twenty-two years old and fairly certain I knew myself pretty well. I had finally discovered teaching was my vocation and was in the last year of college pursuing that dream.
Then I met Suann.
Apparently I didn’t know myself as well as I thought.
Up until then I was quite comfortable with the idea of going through life alone. I was surrounded by family and they were all I needed. Or so I thought.
We tell similar versions of the same story. It won’t surprise those who know us that my version doesn’t take as long to tell. Suann likes to say we dated for a couple of months without me knowing it and she chased me until I caught her. Both are accurate. She was everything I was not, summed up best in the quote she used on the invitation to her senior art show, “I am here to live out loud.” (Emile Zola).
It was during the final preparations of her show that she finally told me what I was feeling, “I think this might be love.” That was the first time she was right.
How did we make it this far? We laugh a lot; we are quick to forgive and we have short memories. And Suann travels, which feeds both her extroversion and my introversion.
This life of ours isn’t perfect but it sure is fun.
LIFE IS RANDOM LOVE IS NOTTM
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