It’s a dream of most to meet a celebrity and to eventually fall in love and live with them for eternity, or at least that is the goal after first initially trying to meet them. But we sometimes forget the nerves and the real life situations of running into a famous person. I have not seen too many famous people in my life, but I was blessed enough to walk past my childhood crush, Dylan Sprouse from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody yesterday and my heart almost stopped.

I had never really thought about what I would do in the presence of someone that is famous and who at one point played on my television for hours at a time each and every day. And now this dude is older and is within feet of me. So, from someone who has experience in the seeing celebrities arena from this one encounter, I will go over the stages of internal grief that happens when confronted with a famous person.

1. Holy crap, is that really them?

2. No way!

3. My heart just fell through my stomach and into my butt.

4. Should I say hey?

5. Should I ask them to stop and take a selfie with me?

6. Or should I just walk by them like I don’t even recognize them?

7. What if I try to speak and I start crying a little bit?

8. I don’t care, they’re famous, its their job to say hey back to regular people.

9. Well, they’re gone now.

This was almost an exact replica of the conversation I was having with myself when being confronted with Dylan Sprouse. Being me, I was too nervous to actually speak to him, but I did say his name out loud for no reason and he heard it and looked at me, but we both continued to walk in separate directions. Now I will wait until I cross paths with Zac Efron or Lena Dunham and see what kind of chaos goes on then.