It has been years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or seconds since you have thought of the one you thought you would be with when you were 7. That person is your elementary school crush. The person who everyone joked with you and them about liking one another, but neither of you ever owned up to your true feelings (mainly because you were too young in your parent’s eyes to have a significant other). You imagine life with them at this young age and hope that you will be together within the next 10 years. This is the type of hope you have that you do not want to ruin the relationship/friendships you already have with them, but the hope that your relationship will only grow stronger.

Then all of the sudden everything stops, and your first “love” moves and is no longer in the same area as you. All of the hope you built up is completely shattered from caring so much about what could happen between you two in the future. Once they leave, it’s like the world becomes a much different place. Not knowing where they are or who they are with causes you to miss them even more. You come to the realization that they could be happier without you and the friends they left behind. You would do anything now to stop them from leaving schools or moving to somewhere else far away because you know you could have fallen in love. Several years later, you realize you have missed how much fun it would have been to be the “it” couple, or experiencing things together that you missed out on like, prom, sporting events, fairs, dates, graduation, and college.

In the end, crossing paths accidentally may be what brings you together in the end. It could be that the growth you both endured while being apart creates a stronger relationship in the long run.