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I may have just experienced one of the best nights in my entire life. And, no, not because it was enjoyable, or even remotely so, but if I could condense everything into one night, this would have to be it.
The night, of course, included the usual drama, and I don't know if I allowed myself to be persuaded into it, and even if so, it may have made me a stronger person. So, as I spent the night after the powderpuff game and the bonfire being vengeful, I knew it wouldn't last for long, all the while still being completely taken away by it. Little did I know what was about to come.
After I dropped Evelyn off at her house and I was driving away, I saw someone getting into their red car and remembered that Evelyn had told me that a boy that was in my eighth grade class lived there. He and I were close friends during that year, and he and a bunch of my other guy friends hung out on our class trip to Six Flags. That being said, it is now junior year, and I really haven't talked to him in a long time. So, I yell at him, and he doesn't know who I am at first, but then sees me and opens my car door and sits in the passenger seat. Somehow, I explain to him the situation of the night, he smiles, simply looks at me, and says, "Did your boyfriend sleep with your best friend?" He then tells me the story, and I feel completely idiotic. But then he smiles and says, "But after I thought about it, I know I can forgive them. I have to forgive them. Because that's what Jesus would do." I can't even describe it. But, of course, my eyes welled up. He told me a bit more of the story and then said, "You know, if people would just forgive each other, that would get rid of about seventy to eighty percent of the problems in the world. There wouldn't be any wars and people would actually get along." He's made a lot of choices in life that many people would look down upon, but you give me the most upright person you know, and they couldn't hold a candle to him. It's that simple. I can't begin to describe the level of respect I have for him, or just how that simple fifteen minute conversation may have changed absolutely everything. And I told him, "I know this may sound crazy, but I really think this was meant to happen," and he said, "No, I totally agree. Things like this are meant to happen." And that was that. Absolutely incredible.
And I am absolutely positive that that had something to do with the next event, that of a friend calling me in tears because of problems she was dealing with. I went to her house, and we laid in the street and talked about everything for about an hour and a half. And that was all.
There was so much beauty in tonight, I can't even begin to describe or explain. It was the completely unexpected that showed me everything, that opened up something completely different within me. And it may have been one of the greatest lessons I've ever learned. And through all this, I know it was the way it was, and I am the way I am because of one person. I know I would never be able to think the way I do without them, without what they've done for me. And maybe I helped change the world for the good a little tonight. It all circles around in the end.