"Life is strange."

Candles inside the Duomo in Milano, Italy

You know how they say things come to you as soon as you stop looking for them (or something to that effect)? Well, it's true. Especially with people. You can want and want and want someone to notice you, talk to you, etc., and as long as you're focused on that, you (a) miss everything else, possibly other great things/people and (b) that someone will never submit to your (albeit silent) will. You finally move on, focus on other things, and then boom. Weeks later, they may as well have fallen directly into your lap, for the effect their attention has on you.

They (as to who 'they' are, I'm still working on this, and will let you know soon) also say that good things come to those who wait. This phenomenon has been revealed to me a few times recently as well...the most recent example being this past week, when the final payoff of skating 24+ hours in 4 days was a full run-through of our senior long program that we had only learned in said 4 days. It was worth the numb feet, numb fingers; the sore legs, sore arms, and heavy eyelids. Even though we were exhausted by the last hour on Saturday morning, I felt our team come together to pull this one last thing off, as a combination celebration of being done with a really hard week and a thank you to the choreographers and coaches who were with us the entire way.

"ora sono qui, voglio sorridere." Gianna Nannini, "Maledetto Ciao"

amore per sempre,
mers.