Love has a tendency to take hold of your heart whether it makes sense to you or not.  Falling for a boy you never think will love you back.   But you fall anyway, because the heart makes decisions without consulting your brain.  But then, maybe he falls for you, too. 

Two people who, on the surface, seem to have no common ground.  Yet, somehow, they vibrate on a deep level in perfect harmony.  They live life never able to decide on what music to listen to in the car, what movie to watch on Friday night, what to eat for dinner, or where to go on vacation.  They never quite match up in any way that matters to most people.

You’d think they would feel lonely.  You’d think they would feel separated by their differences.  But…somehow, some way, they feel more understood than ever before.

It can’t be explained.  Two people who look at each other across a chasm of film, music, hobbies, pop culture, life experience, and every other surface commonality that feeds relationships.  They gaze across that great divide and see something in each other.  A binding recognition that moves them together in a manner that can only be described as fundamental.  An understanding of inner spirit that recognizes its twin.  A simple meeting of eyes that says “You. You are for me.”

But the chasm is not an easy one to bridge.  The hearts that gaze in longing can’t always meet in the middle.  And when the bridge is burned, those hearts pick up the pieces and carry on with life, leaving a little something behind.

But the heart never forgets its pieces.  The heart goes looking for it, without consulting your brain.  It just wants to check on that missing piece.  Are they taking care of it? Do they cherish it as you cherish theirs?  Your heart just has to know.  So you find yourself writing an e-mail, or making a phone call.  The heart that made this decision in your throat, racing, uncertain.  Thanks for the stress, dude. 

But, suddenly, there they are.  A response, a smile, the enthusiastic “I was just thinking about you!”  And you reach out to each other across the years, across the heartache of before, across that great chasm of differences…you reach out and see each other.

A little older.  A little battle scarred.  But there it is.  There is that bit of your heart in their hand, and theirs in yours.  They gaze at you from across that chasm saying “You. I know you.”

Hello again, old friend.