It happened when I was least expecting it. It happened right at a turning point in my life, when I was coming to terms with who I am and who I want to strive to be. It happened in a way that you would see in the movies, in a way that you would say "that would never happen to me". One day I was living my life the way I had always been living it, but within hours my world was flipped upside down. I fell in love at a random time. I fell in love at a time that didn't make sense for me. I fell hard. I fell fast. And I hate to say it, but, I fell completely head over heels.

She came out of nowhere. She caught my eye in a very small, very crowded room. And from that moment I knew I needed to know her. There was something about her in those first few minutes that made me feel completely like myself. Suddenly I had a confidence that I had never seen before. I was just me, and she brought that out in me. When she spoke to me it was as if i had known her forever, and when she looked at me I could feel my heart skip a beat with every word she said.

We fell in love. We fell hard, we fell fast, and we fell together. In just a matter of weeks, she became my best friend, my biggest supporter and the one I knew I loved more than anyone ever before her.

As I'm typing this, with my iPhone propped up on the screen while watching her sleeping soundly over Facetime, I am overwhelmed by how much I love a human that is 600 miles away from me. I am overwhelmed by her beauty, her knowledge and the ways that she makes me feel like the best version of myself. And I am overwhelmed by how grateful I am for that small, crowded room that brought me to her.

For J.C

-M