Well, the inevitable happened... I'm single again. It happens I guess, part of life is experiencing sadness and heartache and growing from feeling those emotions. I will say, I must be bound to have a lot of daughters some day and I will definitely be able to show an emmense level of compassion when they go through the heartaches that most teenage and young adult girls experience. I am grateful that the Lord loves me enough to give me experiences that will ultimately make me a better person.
Being single can be quite fun sometimes. You really never know quite what to expect. At any moment your life can change through a brief meeting or interaction. I have been asked out at the most random moments, and it definitely makes life interesting. Listed below are the top five:
5. Rock climbing at Momentum
At a stake activity about two weeks ago, I was walking from one group of friends over to another, and this guy stopped me and said, Nicole, that is a lovely name (I was wearing a name tag...typical LDS single's activity). He then proceeded to tell me that he had been working up the courage for the last 15 minutes to ask me out. He was a bless your heart kind of guy, and I had barely been dumped 3 days earlier, so I was in no mood to be hit on or go on a date, but his intentions were so pure and it was obvious that he was incredibly nervous. So I gave him my number.
4. BYU-I library
Ok, so if you knew the atmosphere at the library at BYU-I, this really wouldn't be that weird, but the whole situation was awkward so I couldn't help putting it on the list. I was working as a library aide and it was slow so I was reading the Ensign. This guy walked up to me and asked me if I had plans for the next evening. I did already have a blind date lined up, so he encouraged me to come play soccer with a group of friends if my date and I couldn't find anything better to do. He told me they were playing with the biggest soccer ball in all of Idaho, but we had to pay $2 and sign a waiver...(yeah, I don't get it either). He then asked me if I'd like to go on another date. It took a minute to register that he was asking me on a date. I agreed. He called me the following Monday to set everything up, and we made plans to go out Tuesday evening. Tuesday morning, I saw him in the library and stopped him to say hello. I'm not lying, he looked at me and said, how do I know you? I couldn't believe it. I reminded him that we had met last week, we had talked the night before, and we had a date for that evening. Needless to say, the date was awkward. Come to find out, he was trying to fit in 100 dates during the semester.
3. Walmart
I decided to make a pit stop on my way home from work and pick up a few things at a Walmart not too far from my house. As I was waiting to check out, I noticed the guy in front of me was looking at my right hand, on which I wear my CTR ring that is in spanish. He was hispanic. He struck up a conversation with me about how I knew spanish. He then checked out and stalled a bit after going through the line while I paid for my items. I walked right past him and went to my car. However, lo and behold, he was parked next to me and we met up again in the parking lot. He asked me on a date right then and there.
2. Airplane
It not only happens in movies, but in real life! On my way back to SLC from visiting my parents over Thanksgiving, I had a connecting flight in Las Vegas. On the flight from Vegas to SLC, I sat across the isle from a young man who appeared to be about my age. After I got settled in my seat and the plane was getting ready to take off, I got out my Book of Mormon. I read a couple versus when he looked over and struck up a conversation with me, noticing that I was also LDS and...single. We talked the whole plane ride (about an hour) and he got my number at baggage claim. He then called me the next Sunday and we went to the First Presidency Devotional together. Romantic, isn't it?
1. Trax stop (no lie)
The first month I lived here I used the public transportation system to get to work, also known as Trax. I was reading a book called Amour, by Elder Kim Clark, one morning as I was waiting for the train to arrive, and a guy that obviously attended the U of U struck up a conversation with me about the book, where I was from, etc. We boarded the train shortly after the conversation began, and sat in separate areas on the train. We got off on the same stop, and he caught me before I walked off, told me that he and his friends made a goal to ask a girl out to the upcoming Jazz game, but it had to be a girl they had never met before. He got my number, we went out, and he became my first friend here in Utah.
So, while none of these random encounters have developed into anything, one of the days, I may just meet my prince charming while waiting in line to buy postage stamps. It could happen. And when it does, I'm writing a script and selling it to make a major motion picture.
