I met Catherine ten years ago – she was slinging drinks at a cocktail bar, the bestie of a girl I was seeing for all of two months. We hung out as a trio a few times way back forever ago, and Catherine was super fun to be with as we went about finding sweet beaches and chasing sunsets for that summer.
Eventually that girl and I treaded our own paths, but I kept in contact with Catherine through the years. Times being what they are, most of the connection was perfunctory on our social media, but occasionally we’d run into each other out and about on the town, sharing a drink, talking about days gone by, and always intending to go find some sunsets to watch sometime.
Except, we were both pretty bad at making that happen.
Same old story.
Busy lives.
Ships passing in the night.
The fog of modern living.
As many of us can kind of relate, there was a time two years ago when uncertainty hit us all in strange ways. The want for a sense of connection. The desire to feel something else. The throb of dread that things have forever changed. We all dealt with it in different ways.