•• Pretty Distraction ••

You meet your soulmate. You know how it goes. You finish each others’ sentences and thoughts. You share a lot, if not all, of the same feelings. You adore each other. You want to spend every moment you can with them. You share laughter, fears, dreams, concerns, wishes, tears, good news, bad news, everything. You share yourself. You start, easily, breaking down the walls you once had. You let them in, and before you know you… you’re swept away with love. Not an ordinary love. This is something you can’t explain. You don’t really know how to describe it, and only those who have found it… could even begin to understand. You dream together, and of the future.

Then… something happens. An outside influence, something that can’t be controlled… but, it… takes your soulmate away. You know, there’s no other option… it hurts, and it breaks you, but you don’t have control over it. Your heart aches and you try to remember how to breathe.

You’re torn with what you know is right, and what you want to be right. You close your eyes, to blink back the tears that come for no warning. You take a tiny step forward, you know you’ve been here… well, this similar place, but never quite… here, before.

Take a deep breath… and… wait to exhale.

It’s late, so this probably won’t make sense.

What do you do, when you feel that you’ve met your soulmate…. but you feel that you might lose them due to things that are not under anyone’s control. Outisde influences. Complicated situations. And, all you want to do is hang on tight.

Is it selfish to hang on?

… laughing at random bumper stickers, the ones we see.. and the ones that we would create.

… a random text on my cell, that never fails to make me smile.

… the memories of the past… the better dreams of the future.

… how you *get* me, without much effort.

… a word, a smile, a touch… just a feeling that can’t really be explained.