You know the feeling you get when you wake up after a good dream? I've had that on many occasions, but never as strong as I had this morning when I had to make up from the most amazing dream a girl can have.
By now I'm sure you're just dying to hear about it right? Probably not, because you, my dear reader, do not exist, but I will humor myself and tell you anyways.
The bell just rang and I got out of class. I was walking out of the room when this guy stopped me. I'd had a serious crush on him for about a year but he had never really talked to me before.
"Hey Ano, walk with me to the office. I need to drop something off."
"Okay... sure." At first I think nothing of it. I just go to walk with him, perfectly calm and expecting nothing to happen.
We walk down the hallway with a group of his friends to the office. Everyone is laughing and talking and no one notices me or talks to me in particular.
We reach the main office and right before the group of us enter, he grabs my arm and pulls me to the corner in the main hallway right in front of the cafeteria doors. Inside the cafeteria are two secretaries watching us, selling tickets to some event.
He looks down at me and me up at him.
"There's something I want to say, but you'll think I'm just crazy for thinking it."
"Try me" I answer. Again, I'm still pretty calm at the moment.
And then he starts to sing. Very quietly, right into my ear, just for me.
I'd stop the world and melt with you...
And for a minute I wasn't quite hearing. I just stood there wondering what was going on. And then I realized. And my knees went limp and my heart fluttered like a butterfly and my vision blurred.
It wasn't just happiness I was feeling. This was much too strong for just happiness. It was pure bliss, complete freedom, love. And I had never felt anything like it. It consumed my whole body and nothing else mattered. You may have think you've felt love before, and you may have heard my corny description of it before, but really all I can say is it is the greatest feeling in the world.
I stood up, in his arms, and all I could do was smile. Smile right into those beautiful eyes that were smiling right back down on me. He turned to the secretaries and bought two tickets, no doubt for us to go together, and he held my hand and asked me where I wanted to eat lunch.
Just like nothing had happened. Just like, bam, we found each other, here we were, and we were going to be together. We proceeded to walk down the hallway talking and laughing and having a great time. And I have never felt so happy in my entire life.
And now the bit of wisdom I pass on to you: dream. In your dreams you can feel the greatest and most terrible emotions that we never get to feel in real life. No matter how much I wish for some great romantic spontaneous thing to happen to me, it probably won't happen in real life. But in a dream, anything can happen. And that's the beauty of it. You can do anything, be anyone who you can't be in real life, no matter how much you want to. The most beautiful place to be is indeed in a dream.
And this morning, all I can say is I never wanted to stay asleep more in my entire life. But eventually, you have to wake up.
