sometimes the reality of life hits you...

Every once in a while I have moments of reality. For the most part I just do my day to day life and I don't think about things. But every once in a while, I am blessed with a moment of reality. That happened tonight as I spent the evening with Blake. We were talking about the real stuff of life. No more of the surfacy, not fake, but surfacy stuff. Instead, we got to experience true openness and vulnerability.

I hope that you have someone who can be vulnerable before. Someone who allows you to bear your soul, beyond have a good time with. I guess that's what the real stuff of life is made of, honesty and openness.

To the majority that read this, I bet I get a few head nods and then you will move on to the next blog or facebook note. But to those who know exactly what I'm saying, who know what it's like to yearn for openness and reality, who either know what it's like to bear themselves or wish they had someone like that to bear themselves before; to you, I want to thank you. Thank you for being real with your life. For searching for the right things and not getting too lost in the surface.

I find myself attracted to the REAL. I found that in Oxford. I found that in New Orleans. I want to find that here in Manhattan. And I found that tonight with Blake. If I tag you, then I have found REAL in you, and I love it. Thank you for that REALITY.