Our Meet Cute
Meet Cute: A scene in a movie where two characters, meet for the first time in an entertaining, amusing, or cute scene
As each year passes and I get another year older (hopefully wiser as well), I come to realize more and more how our lives are not just random acts that occur to us, but rather random acts that belong to a much bigger story. I don’t believe in coincidences, but rather divine and spiritual intervention! That is exactly how and why Chasity and I are in each other’s lives. As I look back to write about our first ‘meet cute’, there is no other way to describe us being in each other’s lives other than a perfectly planned, purposeful collision of two souls; both of whom needed each other more than they could have known and still don’t fully understand.
For anyone that knows Chasity and me, they know that there probably aren’t two more unlikely people who could have wound up being best friends for 20+ years. As you guys will come to love and discover through our blog, Chasity can be described as having a vivacious personality, someone who commands the attention in any room she is in. She is unapologetic to who she is and says just about everything that she thinks. She is all of the things that I am not! And I think that is what we both love about each other and what makes our friendship work so perfectly. Our friendship really is like a classic movie script about best friends; childhood friends (one usually more popular/the other more reserved), experiencing life together, a falling out, a reconnection and strengthening of friendship that ultimately leads to an eternal and life long bond. So to describe the way we met is nothing short of a movie meet cute.
Chasity’s Version
As each year passes, Kristin gets older and I get wiser (wink wink). God knew what he was doing when he crossed our paths. Both of us were broken, scared as hell, and so very sad.
My childhood was a tad dysfunctional. A child of domestic violence with an addict for a dad and a mother who did all she could to shelter us, my younger years were filled with pain and suffering. Therefore, I grew up quickly not by choice but out of necessity. I lived a life of fear -- fear of how others would treat me, fear of going home to an unpredictable Dad, fear of others finding out about my life. On the outside I did my best to appear happy while on the inside I felt broken. That is how Kristin and I bonded without knowing until we were older.
Twenty-two years ago God sent a beautiful soul to me. Kristin calms my storm and I add some fuel to her well-contained flame. Our personalities were completely different, but our souls saw their reflection in one another. We connected instantly.
I met Kristin in eighth grade gym class. She was sitting on the bleachers with both arms wrapped around one bent leg and the other leg dangling in the air. She looked scared and nervous which mirrored my feelings at that instant. I was popular in eighth grade but felt at times like an outcast amongst people who looked as though they had a normal home life. Kristin and I struck up a conversation in the locker room that day and became soul sisters from that point forward. God knew I needed her, and she needed me. I am forever grateful for that eighth grade class and a best friend that has been by my side through the good, bad and the ugly.
Kristin’s Version
For me to describe the first day we met, I have to first go back to a memory before our first meeting that involves a 12 year old girl sitting on a flight from Southern California to Nashville, TN. Tears pouring down her face and a completely shattered heart, leaving behind a life that would one day just become distant memories. She is broken, sad, scared, and completely unaware of how this flight will change the course of her life forever.
It was my first day of 8th grade at a new school, in a new city, in a new state. Moving to the south was about a foreign to me as going to the moon. Middle school was hard enough, but having to change everything in the middle of it all called for a strength that could only be provided through God. I don’t recall why, but I remember I missed my first class and joined up with my fellow classmates in P.E. Late to that class as well, I had to go to the locker room to change and meet up with everyone on the gym floor. That is where our meet cute happened! Shy, scared, and slightly awkward new girl meets captain of the cheerleading team and Ms. Popularity.
At that moment in my life, all I needed was a sense of belonging and a sense of connection to the life I had just left behind and here was a girl, who was the most popular girl in school, and who had happened to have lived in the same, small town I just left!! Seriously, what are the odds?
I don’t believe for a single moment that our friendship was anything other than a spiritual alignment of two people, who were destined to be in each other’s lives – for better or worse, till death do us part. That is the beautiful part about life – that it can be such a beautiful disaster. Even though you may not see how it all plays into a higher purpose at the moment, when you look back you can see the true beauty and masterpiece that was created.
-Kristin
With Love,
Kristin & Chasity