An education.
I attended school in the beginning of 2007. After I’d been there for about a year a new professor came into the building to begin teaching intro industrial design classes. I thought he was cute but never thought anything more of it because of the amount of work I had. He was a professor. And he had a girlfriend….but he was really funny…he did have something about him.
I got older, more isolated into my work, closer to each of the professor’s because I was a work study upstairs in the office. I still never had a real conversation with him though, I was closer to everyone else. We didn’t have any classes together except a quarter of portfolio, in which I had too many things going on at home, I could hardly do the homework. Bad first impression Lauren.
I finally graduated after 3 years of hard work and I moved on to live in Hong Kong to pursue a 6 month internship designing phones. I said my farewells to the industrial design building and my close friends and professors, and I hadn’t thought about it again.
A little while after I moved to HK, I was depressed and lonely. Getting used to a completely different culture was a little too much for me at first. I finally got used to it, found some things that I could put my time into like reading new books, practicing yoga, learning italian. Little did I know…..
One day while at work, I open my facebook inbox and I had a message from him asking how Hong Kong was going. I was delighted. I was smitten! No one had contacted me since getting there and it couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. We exchanged more and more messages as time went on and eventually that led to talking twice a day, every day. Finally, I asked him out for coffee (even though I wansn’t there) and afterwards, he asked me out to dinner. All the things we had in common was just weird. He’s a nerd (understatement), I’m a nerd, everything about us just fit.
When I got back to the states from Hong Kong I immediately moved in with him to see what it was like to actually give him a real kiss, to cuddle in the mornings, fill eachother’s coffee cups when they were empty, take the puppy for long walks, and go to bed knowing my best friend was someone I hardly knew, but someone I knew I could spend the rest of my life getting to know.
I moved to Chicago two months later to pursue another internship that would possibly end up being a permanent position, I had to take care of my own career. That meant living in Chicago for a while, and him staying in Savannah to take care of his career, his puppy, and his brand new house.
But this distance…is nothing. This is the easiest thing I’ve ever had to do. When you know exactly what you’re waiting for is this kind of happiness, every second of waiting becomes a privilege, one step closer to being with that person again.
This is just the beginning. I’ll stop cheesing now :)
