Letter #85: Behind Your Touch
Good morning, Erin. I think it’s time we had a talk about my crush. Admittedly, I’ve been trying to avoid having to do this—and, even now that we’re here, I still don’t feel at all ready to open up about it. But…well, timing has made it somewhat unavoidable, at this point. Which is an apt way to put that, as coincidence would have it…because love is all about timing. I’m a Romantic, in many ways, so I very much subscribe to the idea that love—for our purposes specifically romantic love—is a transcendent, ethereal force which, if we are open to it, can guide us to or help us recognize the souls of the people we are meant to be with. But I also recognize that this is ultimately only a possibility, not a guarantee—because A LOT influences the ability to love someone and then that person to love you back, whether you are tied together by the red string of fate or not—some of it seemingly reasonable…and some of it not. Timing, I think, falls into the latter category...