this morning i woke up thinking about a crush i had over a year ago and ive just been thinking about it all day so i wanted to type it out somewhere. basically in my freshman year of college i had a lot of crushes on people but there was this one crush i had on a stranger i kept seeing around campus and i forgot how much it affected me.
i had a morning class for two semesters that had me walk 20 minutes from my dorm to class but some mornings, i noticed he walked the same way as me. the only thing was that we'd always be walking on the opposite of the street from each other but we still went the same way together. he was in a different major than me and usually i don't pay that much mind to small crushes like this but everywhere i went he was just there. i remembered almost every time i saw him he had a duffel bag on him and i knew he was a cartooning major (?) so i always wondered what he was carrying in there. i remembered he was really pretty too lol im so embarrassed. i don't think he ever noticed me much but to me, it felt like i had a friend to walk with to class every morning even if he didn't realize.
one day though, i was heading to the library on campus and when i got to the elevator he was just next to me and suddenly i wasn't a world apart from him. we were on there for a little while and after a minute i managed to say hi to him and immediately i felt butterflies when he looked back at me. he was really kind and we exchanged names/ socials and i forgot if he acknowledged that he's seen me around too but i felt like he probably saw me around anyway. i had to go off my stop eventually and we just waved before the elevator closed.
after that moment, i tried to purposely get up earlier and make sure i'd get out my dorm on time to walk with him but i never really caught him after that. for awhile i wished something more came out of this but even though nothing did, i feel like small moments like this should still be valued and that sometimes, they should stay small moments. i think its magical how strangers just meet each other and randomly cross paths and i think those kinds of interactions are special even if they're momentary.
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Aiden >:3
do you still have his socials? or anything like that?
dont be afraid to reach out to him.
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omg hi i just saw this but yeah i do actually!! i have his instagram and ive been wanting to reach out to him the past month but the thing is i don't rlly know what to say to him you know? we're both artists though so i think i might lead with something about his art so hopefully that would lead to something ;;;; im gonna try to figure it out but also tysm for the encouragement!!:'o
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Ray
Sometimes the smaller things matter more and this helps solidify that. I wonder what he's up to nowadays.
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yea exactly its so easy to forget that sometimes and same here!! i hope he's doing good too
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