Brandelyn: Lyrical Contradiction

            It is a really beautiful thing when you realize that you love someone. I’m not specifically talking about being ‘in love’ with someone, on a relationship level. I’m talking about the love you have for someone who is going to be in your life forever. I’ve been staying at my friends house for the past week or so (long story) but we have been friends for about five years now…(Wow, has it been that long?!) and he is someone that I can say I genuinely love. I know that if he ever needed anything, it wouldn’t even be a question, and vice versa. That is an amazing feeling to know that someone has your back. And its not like we talk every day!  There are times when we don’t talk for months at a time. We will pass those little “Hey I was just thinking about you, hope everything is cool, get at me” messages, or crack little jokes about each other on our facebook pages, but we won’t actually see each other or have a conversations for a minute. But when we do finally hook up, we talk for hours, fill each other in, work everything out and its like no time has passed! I love that kind of friendship! The ones that are extremely low maintenance and incredibly worthwhile. There are those people, that you know without a doubt are going to be in your life forever. I’m going to send my kids to him for their check-ups and various medical needs (because Brandelyn does not do body fluids, or blood, or anything pertaining to being sick or whatever… I am not the one!!!!!!!!!) But it is so true when they say that the friends you make in college are the friends you will have forever. I have some truly incredible people in my life. Amazing. They are all a little, shall we say touched, but birds of a feather…so its all good! LOL! But I was thinking this weekend how blessed I am to have the friends in my life. People dating all way back to freshman year in college during those good ole Xavier days…to my 04’s from Cal…My ROSAS and my “sands”, my little homies that I have watched grow into mature young men and women…people that have enriched my life so much, just by being themselves. I often wonder how different my life would be had I made just one different decision. Like what if I had actually gone to Davis instead of Berkeley? (I know, perish the thought, but it almost happened…) Or what if I had stayed at Xavier those four years…where would I be right now? That’s crazy how one turn can change your entire life. I love the possibility of the day. I guess Forrest was right…you never know what you’re gonna get, but man is it fun to sample!!!

*AC Transit story of the day…So my cousin and I were in OAKLAND waiting for the bus. A man, who was not quite homeless looking with all of his gold and turquoise jewelry and fresh shoes on, was approaching everyone who passed him and asking for money. Not uncommon, however, it was his style of approach that warrants this shout out. Cousin and I are standing there, minding our own business and all of a sudden we hear “Aye, aye you…give me some change so I can get me a GotDamn drink…” Cousin and I turn and look behind us to see what the commotion is about, and we see ole boy standing there looking at us expectantly with his hand out. Cousin, who had just come back from buying a soda says, “I just told you that I didn’t have any change when you asked me inside the store…” He replies… ‘Oh that’s right…I didn’t see you from the front…I was just looking at you from behind” as he proceeds to bend down and take a closer look at Cousin’s behind…Next thing I know, I turn around and dude is like an inch away from me…I move and he starts yelling, “you ain’t got to move and get all scared…I’m not gonna do anything to you…people always wanna get all scared and Sh*t…I ain’t gonna do nothin’ to y’all, I’m just tryna get some change so I can get me a GotDamn drink.” Cousin and I look at him, then each other, and proceed to turn back to the street to continue waiting for the bus. Next thing we know…ole boy is talking to a group of Latino ladies that had approached the bus stop. “Damn…are we in the land of the midgets?” he says yelling at the group of tiny women, ‘I mean damn…I know I’m tall, but you all are midgets…do you think you will ever grow? How can you live being that GotDamn short? Aye, do y’all have some change so I can get my GotDamn drink?”…

Yes…another wonderful day in the life of an AC Transit rider! LOL!!!!!!!!!! sigh….