Liking someone you meet very often,
Liking someone you meet once a week,
Or liking someone you don't even know the name of?
The first one I spend late nights with. We share heart to heart and we can spend hours just talking. It's a weird kind- it's comfortable, but there are still gentle flutters of butterflies whenever our eyes meet or when there's silence between us, or when he smiles out of nowhere. When he offers to help and laughs at my jokes, and we share a look that only we understand. He is a friend. Untouchable.
The second I see every week. I know his life story, but we barely talk. We hang out till 4am, but we barely talk. He teases me and stares at me, but he barely speaks his mind. He too laughs at my jokes even when they're not funny and when they're not meant for him to hear. We spend time together doing something we love- singing and brain exercises. He is really kind, just like the first one. But alas, he is a friend too. Untouchable.
This last one. I don't know the next time i'll see him, I don't even know his name. But he is cute. He keeps saying I look familiar and honestly he looks familiar to me too. He defends a few times so far, and that is precious to me. He buys me a drink and shares a philosophical book he read. But I don't know his name. And our worlds are too different and far to meet.
Best of all, I get the full experience. Having interest in a friend, an acquaintence (sorry second one) and a stranger. All different distances in my life but in my heart they're all the same. So close, yet so far.
