The people whose lives intersect with mine, if even so briefly, have imprinted on my heart, and will never fade.
Sometimes, it’s peculiar how astonishing life can be. You fall profoundly into love when you least expect it, and it is impossible to recover. Three weeks ago, I left for the Euro Tour feeling bitter anticipation for a trip spent with strangers- yet every one became inexorably precious to me.
We spent two delightful weeks together- that seemed so brief and boundless, all at the same time. Drifting in and out of sleep on an eerily hushed bus in the last few astringent rays of sunshine together, ninety exchange students singing along to “Ella me paró el taxi” in an abandoned Italian disco tech dancing under neon lights, delicious deep-fried cinnamon-sugar pastries on cloudy Prague streets, admiring breathlessly Swiss glaciers, and 2 am stifled laughter on hotel beds. These precious memories I have with them are so fleeting, and are briskly fading to a cloudy haze… I desperately refuse to forget them.
To every single one of you, thank you.
I will listen carefully for each of your voices in all the world’s noise- and maybe you will hear mine.
xo, L
Oregon to Provence, France 