Connections

I do not believe in "fate", but I really do believe that sometimes we "recognize" people from *before* somehow. There just are people that we have very strong connections with. My one friend has a crazy ex, and it's too bad that he's crazy this time around because there is a very strong connection with him, and I know she misses that part of him and wishes desperately she could transplant that part of him into a person that she could be with. I have exactly 3 people (males, as it happens) that I feel "that" way about. Only one that I get to talk to, and I happen to live with him.
There is a part of me, as you know, who believes that we are ALL connected, and that after a conversation with any random person, you could find the connection. And I think it's true. I'll have to really test that out for myself some time.
The day I met MFN, I thought to myself "Yay. There's my new best friend." I could feel that before even having a real conversation with her.
Cullen works with Jason, who is married to Amy. For whatever reason, I feel like the longer I go without meeting her, the longer Cullen and Jason are keeping me away from my friend. I know already that I love her and that we're going to be friends for a long time. I don't know why, but I'm certain of it.
It's like this with Dalton, too. He's Cullen's cousins youngest, and I am IN LOVE with this child. I adore his sister too, in a way that is more than I feel for any other random child, but Dalton HAS ME. I don't know what it is about him, truly. I must just recognize him/his soul. It has taken me a lot longer to feel any thing similar to this with kids that I've known longer and seen more often. I just LOVE this child.
I'm so grateful for the people I feel connected to. It's not only boys, of course. There are people who I've known in my growing up years that I can plop down with after years, months, whatever, and it's like no time has passed. Don't you love that? Knowing you can count on that connection and that there are relationships that don't need constant nurturing? You can love them from afar and they you and alls well?
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