The First Date.
I was interested in Katya’s Bumble bio saying “Lets talk about how fucked up the world is”. I was like ah this is my type of person here. Then we started talking and very quickly we were trading paragraphs of opinions. Those turned into pages worth of back and forth until she thankfully suggested we have a picnic date.
The truth is, I had this gut feeling that I’d fall in love with Katya since I first saw her. I'm not one to subscribe to the idea of lovers at first sight. Yet...I can't shake the image from the first time I saw her and how overwheling my feelings were. Malcom X park on a sunny June Sunday. The green hues from the vegitation and neautral tones from the groups of people contoured by the sun. Those earth tones, blurred out of my focus, served as the backdrop. She was there in an all white outfit with her hairband in place and backpack still on both shoulders. The sunlight filtered by a nearby tree's leaves perfectly highlighted her smile that seemed to begin moments before our eyes met. She was doing that cute thing with her hands where she holds onto her index finger as if waiting for me to do or say something. For a brief moment, everything around me stopped and the sound of drum circles, people laughing, dogs barking all faded. Our eyes met and something in me knew, it just knew… she and I were going to fall in love. To this day there are still moments where I look at her and the entire world with all its messes and beauty disappears. Almost as if everything else in the world knows its so incomparable to her beauty, her radaiting light that it chooses to hide away. In a way, its really fitting that our first date was a picnic. Katya’s love feels like a picnic somwhere in nature with the sun’s warmth showering you as dreamscape music plays and your friends surround you.
