Twists

So I've only heard two people say this: "you always meet twice in a lifetime." For sometime I've been wondering if it was just a bullshit line. Granted the evidence with most people in my life (such as some of my best friends) would suggest that the saying is indeed true.

Three years ago I took a poetry workshop at the University I am now at. I was doing study abroad, and met a girl who was on a semester abroad. She wrote this amazing poem, that I eventually copied into my diary so I could just read it over and over again. Everytime I looked at it I'd wish that I had written it. I never got to tell her how wonderful it was. That is, until tonight. At the last minute I decide to attend a reading with some of my classmates. We were gabbing when I saw her walk in. Initially I thought it couldn't be her, but then I decided to go up and see if it was.

I went up asked if her name was G and she said it was. Turns out she did her MA here last fall, and is trying to stick around. I started talking about her poem. I told her she needed to send it out, that poem needs to be published. I was gushing like a fan girl. But, I was happy I finally got to say what I had wanted to all these years.

So maybe you do get to tell people what you need to, even when you don't think you'll get the chance.