It's like my last post about 'firsts'. Every time you meet a new friend it's a 'first' and it's so exciting getting to know each other - if you open yourself up to let someone else in. It's thrilling, interesting, provoking, inspiring. You discover first what you have in common as if you were meant to have met and then you realize that it's the good in you - the hope in you - that wants to find common ground - that doesn't want to see what's not the same. Because it feels good to be the same when you're used to feeling different.
I have never felt so alive by trusting in others (as they deserve to be) - whether they earn it slowly or whether you take a leap of faith in doing so. Before, I so much as looked at another and immediately did not trust them. Still, I keep a healthy guard. But I'm knee deep in the lake of trust.
And it feels good to be in this lake.
