sozobe wrote:Makes sense to me, actually, like the ones that you knew so well didn't have as many potentialities... it's the potentialities that get you thinking.
Yeh, "the one that got away" and all that ... still, there's one or two I had short affairs with that I dont really ever think of anymore, too.
One of the trippiest cases is this girl I met some ... thirteen years ago, on a Slovak mountaintop. We had a brief, passionate affair, went home, stayed in touch, met up again a year later and carried on a now-we're-lovers-now-we're-friends kind of affair for a few years, seeing each other every few months (and both with our own partner, mind you, though I switched from one to another in the meantime).
Oh man, was I in love with her, at some time. And she with me, too - just at a different time. Or one would finally lean towards choosing for the other when the other had just definitely decided for his/her own partner. Man ... complicated times.
Still, we also remained friends throughout. She visited me when I studied abroad, we sent each other letters and packages, and when I had to write my thesis just when my gf had left me, she invited me to come live in Berlin with her, her friend and her boyfriend for a few months. It was cool. (Oh, and I
really liked her boyfriend. He was extremely gentle. I was very upset when she eventually left him, after eight years or something.)
Like I said, its now 13 years on. She's a single mum, I'm out here, and 'though there have been much longer lapses, too, in principle we still meet up every few months. She came over with her new boyfriend to go to the filmfestival for a day the other week, in fact, it was cosy. I consider her one of my best friends ... and yeh, I still think she's pretty exciting & attractive, too, and I know she thinks the same of me ;-). And there's always some vague possibility of drifting to and fro should we both happen to find ourselves otherwise unoccupied ... But I also know that we would have gotten in deep trouble very quickly if we actually had gotten together. Well, perhaps way at the beginning, when we were still kids, it could still have worked, but any time in later years, when we had started changing in different ways ... no, as day-to-day partners we would not have tolerated each other / would still not tolerate each other ;-).