Enter Amy.

This beautiful girl who I was instantly drawn to. Strangely, I wasn’t drawn to her physically. I had a girlfriend and I was passionately in love. And, though Amy reminds me of this, we fought and battled but I did love Jenny a lot. Yet there was still this ‘thing’ between us.

So we talked all the time. It never stopped. We went on breaks and talked, we talked after class, we talked about politics, life, work, and everything under the sun. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. I distinctly remember being afraid to take breaks, since i wanted to prove myself, yet I kept taking them.

I know that as the talks passed and I learned more about Amy, I was also learning something about life. Through her passion for life and her passion for her work I saw glimpses of something. I was never quite sure what it was but I kept trying to look through the glass.

As we grew and times changed I learned so much about myself. I can say that I am what I am today because of her and those early experiences.

Sometimes people change you and sometimes a place changes you. In this case it was both. That place had so many other people that were and are so important in our lives. Yet the closest bonds formed were the ones between Amy and I.

After we left that place our bond has carried on. We have faced new environments with different rules and new expectations. Yet our bonds have pushed us to recreate that old home.

As I sit here now writing about these memories, I realize one thing. That Amy is now my home and my source for inspiration.

In her I have a place for innovation, for change, and all the crazy things I want to do. Now comes the rewriting of my dreams and my life into something of our dreams and our life…

Once I finish with my last case of bottled water, I will go back to a brita filter system in my home and use my recent gift of a reuasble water bottle I received for speaking at a conference (and its green!).

But most of all, I miss him around as a person. Sharing random stories or him hanging out til 2am talking about changing the world, Gov 2.0 style and granola.

If there is a Friends Day, this should be required reading. Although every friend relationship is different, there is something transcendant at the core of your account.

Lovely!