While I was walking back from work today, I had a strange feeling.
Most women take these sorts of feelings for granted, it’s nearly everyday life for them.
I’m not nearly as much of a daydreamer as I used to be, I get thrilled and in a solemn unity with the universe when I daydream.
I’m not sure what triggered it, but I imagined myself with a guy in the near future, my prince charming. I’m almost embarrassed to admit I did. I was thinking about how to get some dinner cooked and data analyzed efficiently when I would get home, but I was powerless to the images that appeared in my mind.
It’s an odd optimistic feeling, the ones I am especially skeptical about, but I let go and totally enjoyed it.
He was there, everything I admire in guys, put together like a puzzle, yet still leaving much unknown. He touched me with curiosity and affection, and I could see us as a couple, without me even changing parts of myself, without having to become girlier or prettier and I didn’t even have to moderate my standards. It seemed so real and gave me a twang of hope and something to smile about. I was in the presence, but my future self looked back at me. Nothing had changed, it might as well even have been today. I got a sense of how we as individuals exist in all planes of time.
I know there is a billion psychological reasons for this, but I will hold on to my waking dreams. I know it’s some skewed message my brain wants me to see, but that doesn’t keep me from cherishing it as a personal myth.
A lot of people say that you are ready for something once you are able to visualize it. I think I might have figured it out. I’m not afraid of the standards out there any more. Not even a little bit. I’m ready to meet him, despite my perceived flaws, because in that world, I am as normal as could be. He too, despite his obvious quirks, melancholic disposition, still can exist freely in the myth.
One day I will awaken and chuckle at this, but at least I am preserving some rare, fleeting instances of feminine feeling. I have never felt so much like a woman.