New lesson learned: Don't tell God you're swearing something off (unless it's a bad vice). I had sworn off long distance relationships, they're just too much effort! I wanted someone who lived in town, someone to do the boring things with like laundry, grocery shopping, and lounging. Want to hear God's response? "Ha HA Ha!" (it sounds much like Santa's Ho HO Ho in my head).
Recently I reconnected with my old high school boyfriend which began as an hour long conversation here or there and turned into hours on Skype every day. Once we realized that friendship had become inevitable, it dawned on us that there was most likely something more than we thought. BUT, it's complicated. In high school we were long distance (surprise, surprise), but that was a measly 100 miles. Today those 100 miles we would both find refreshing instead of the 10,000 miles that currently separate us. You see, he's a marine, in Japan.
Since both of us had sworn off long distance, it took a lot of convincing to finally take the plunge and decide that we wanted to see if we could make it work. Well, here we are officially Facebook complicated. Now I just anxiously await his arrival back to the US next month so that he's not living in tomorrow while I'm still trying to get through today. Our 14 hour time difference will change from timezones to driving time. So we still have a long road ahead of us, but I have hope that it was more than fate that brought us back into one anothers' lives.
My plans tend to fall apart, sometimes for the better
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