2 posts tagged “friends”
Please do the world, and me, and one of my friends, a favor.
Tell us a little something about your first girlfriend/boyfriend.
Hmm. Lord knows I don't really need to drive yet another "secret" blog into the ground by blathering about this topic again, since it's been pretty well exhausted in the past. But: His name was Josh; we met through a mutual friend in college. We were together for two years, then split for seven months, then together again for five months, and then it was over. He was born in Virginia, but grew up all over the world -- Colombia, South Africa, Ecuador (his father was a diplomat and his mother was Colombian). He was smart, he was funny, he was supremely egotistical and self-aggrandizing in ways he was both aware of and not aware of, and he was as stubborn as a fucking mule about every god-damn thing -- but of course, he blamed me for making every conversation into a confrontation, when really it was his insecurities that made any statement that didn't jibe with his worldview into a personal attack. He was kind of gawky and most people wouldn't consider him traditionally hot, but God knows that I fell for him hard.
And yeah, I'm still not over him. We're friends now, and we see each other fairly regularly and always have a good time, and we're getting to be more comfortable around each other (we've discussed guys we've dated, and are tentatively dipping our toes into discussing our sex lives)... but whenever we hang out, I still think about how nice it would be if we could be together, just like this, but instead of sitting in silence with him on the train I could have my arm around him, and at the end of the night, we could go home together instead of walking our separate ways, only seven blocks but the rest of our lives apart.
