Someone understands me
It's that moment when you realise it doesn't matter how odd... er, eccentric, the rest of the world thinks you are. There's someone, one person, who GETS you.
I spent a significant part of my childhood and teens trying to conform. It didn't work. I could never work out what to say when and usually if I did respond to comments around me, everyone turned to look at me as though I'd just jumped out of a spaceship. Even if I explained my leaps of logic, or meandering path through current affairs and history that lead to the conclusion, no one got it.
I was lucky, though. When I was seven, I met someone who got me most of the time, and the times she didn't, she'd just shrug her shoulders and hug me. I didn't always get her either. We're still friends, all these years later. We don't see each other often anymore because our lives have diverged, but when we do, we literally begin conversations mid-sentence, like we've been talking the whole time and haven't missed anything.
Yesterday, I realised I have people in my life that are perfect for me. My daughter and I were talking about cats and I couldn't remember the name of a plant. Don't worry - she got the link - see what I mean? I used my hands to mimic the growth of the plant. I didn't say anything to her. For a second, she frowned at me as though I was mad and then said:
"No, it's not a spider plant."
Of course she recorded me doing my spider plant impersonation. Would you have known what the plant was?
I spent a significant part of my childhood and teens trying to conform. It didn't work. I could never work out what to say when and usually if I did respond to comments around me, everyone turned to look at me as though I'd just jumped out of a spaceship. Even if I explained my leaps of logic, or meandering path through current affairs and history that lead to the conclusion, no one got it.
I was lucky, though. When I was seven, I met someone who got me most of the time, and the times she didn't, she'd just shrug her shoulders and hug me. I didn't always get her either. We're still friends, all these years later. We don't see each other often anymore because our lives have diverged, but when we do, we literally begin conversations mid-sentence, like we've been talking the whole time and haven't missed anything.
Yesterday, I realised I have people in my life that are perfect for me. My daughter and I were talking about cats and I couldn't remember the name of a plant. Don't worry - she got the link - see what I mean? I used my hands to mimic the growth of the plant. I didn't say anything to her. For a second, she frowned at me as though I was mad and then said:
"No, it's not a spider plant."
Of course she recorded me doing my spider plant impersonation. Would you have known what the plant was?
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