Memories on the Rebound

What you have to understand is that it never ended. Partly because it never really started. It took about 20 years of incubation for the moment to arrive.

I have to admit that I was hooked from the start. There was something about the lad that caught my eye. And although it felt like he put me off in the beginning, here we are today.

And I feel our connection much more deeply now. Or maybe I have just allowed it to finally sink in. We are alike in some creepy ways. You can say that he is the male version of me in many cases. Yeah, can you imagine?

That would be a scary thought. Except not because there is a shared understanding on our outlook of life, on this dread of existence. I believe our foundations are the same if not very similar. The disparity clearly arises in presentation.

He looks at things from earth whereas I see things from heaven. Our minds meet in the middle and I have to say that intellectual intimacy has never been an issue for us. It is the extension of that that he had invited. Being on different channels, I missed that call altogether. Until now, anyway.

And I do not mind coming down from the clouds to engage an uncertain possibility. I am seriously intrigued by the prospect although quite frightened by the notion of appearing on a channel other than cartoon. Will my animated character be able to step up to this new kind of interaction?

Therein is the challenge, to grow beyond our zone of ease and comfort. And many of you would say it is about time anyway. I am up to take a leap of faith. I am curious to meet this mystery, the more to life than I know already.

Do not get me wrong, I have my doubts, especially since I cannot delineate between fantasy and reality anymore. But the point is to try this out. The effort means a great deal. I have to take a chance and see what becomes of it. If nothing else, I will have ample new material for more writing.