It's interesting to see scenarios play out in your friends' lives and then to have those same exact scenarios happen in your own life. I remember scrolling through my Facebook feed, looking at new couples gushing about how much they were in love with their new partners after they had been with their old partners for so long. I always thought it was weird that they seemed to be able to jump from someone they had spent a majority of their life with to this new person and to be completely head over heels for them. Then it happened to me.

I came to the sudden realization that time spent together doesn't necessarily mean happiness and connectedness. I spent two years with someone and didn't feel the connection that I feel now. Don't get me wrong, he was sweet and loving and we did have a couple things in common, but the way we thought was never the same. The way we viewed the world and ourselves never really lined up. I know that there were times I felt like I was pretending to be a whole other person, that I couldn't always be my true self. It's not like that now.

We haven't been together for very long at all but I've never felt this connected or had this level of understanding. I think it helps that we had more similar childhoods, that we were raised in the same faith and encouraged in the same directions. It certainly helps that both of us think very similarly, very logically, so we are able to relate to each other on a completely different level. It's amazing. I've never reached the level of comfort we are at, with a significant other so quickly or even at all. Maybe it's because I've grown and matured, maybe it's because I've finally found my match. Either way, I think I'm beginning to understand why people say, "Time doesn't matter if there is no true connection."

I'm trying hard not to get my hopes up but damn is it hard when you have so much in common.