The People Who Click

I'm trying really hard everyday to understand how the people in this world work and think. Everyday, I am blown away by the fact that I clearly know nothing about the way people's minds work.

I believe whole heartedly in sticking with the people who click, because for me, I don't connect with many people. Not a lot of people understand my unwaivering faith in humanity, not many people understand how I can go from Jack Johnson to Kanye West, not many people understand my complexities. But when I meet the people that do, I do my best to keep them in my life.

Now that's not to say that the people who don't "get me" get the boot. Not so at all, I love the people who question me just as much. But there's something so special, so unique about the people who don't ask you a million times why you do something or how you're able to think or act a certain way. You don't find those kinds of people very often, in my experience. How often is it that you find someone in this big world of 7,000,000,000+ people? It's not often. They don't just show up out of nowhere, ring your doorbell and say "Hi! I'm the person who's going to make everything feel easy."

We're lucky to find these kinds of people. But if we pass them up, if we let them go, if they choose to let us go, what do we do?

I believe in soul mates. I don't mean that I think that there's only one person out there for you. I actually believe quite the opposite, I think there's multiple people out there for each of us. I think that these people have different levels on which they connect with us. Your best friend could be your soul mate in a completely platonic way. I'm grateful to say that my best friend is my soul mate. She connects with me on every level, she gets what I'm trying to say even if my words are broken and even if she disagrees with me. She opens my mind and soul up to new ideas and she makes it easy for me to say the things I find difficult to say to most people. (That's my best friend Amber, y'all, if you don't know now ya know :) )

But I also believe in other kinds of soul mates. The people you could see yourself with connecting on a romantic level with but also on a spiritual or emotional or even an intellectual level. And even if there is a romantic connection at first that doesn't stay or maybe wasn't sincere to begin with, I believe those other levels of connection are real and should not be so easily broken. I don't think we have the pleasure of knowing enough people that we truly click with. I love all my friends and I appreciate everything they bring to my life. I love when they challenge me and question me and even make me feel like a jackass sometimes, because well... I'm a jackass sometimes.

But, if you meet someone who you can have a genuinely amazing relationship (platonic or romantic or what have you) with, who makes you feel like the things you say are not bogus or crazy, then I think we should do our best to keep those people in our lives. We need those people who make us feel like we're sane when we're saying our wildest and craziest thoughts. Those people who make you feel high off of the adrenaline of simply being understood. If you come across these kinds of people, don't throw them away. We're not all so lucky to meet them very often.

Good vibes as always and forever my lovely readers,

Priya