Getting to know people and liking them isn’t always about knowing specific truths like where they’re from, when their birthday is, or what their favorite colors are. It should never be about the clothing brands that they wear or which hobby that they excelled in in high school. It’s all about the way they laugh out loud, if they carry themselves differently at night time, if they crinkle their nose when they smile, or if they cut their sandwiches in halves or triangles. Maybe we’re forgetting that appreciating a person has a lot more to do with just taking comfort in their nuances. What if it’s about whether or not they still blow on dandelions to make wishes or if they twirl their hair around when they’re nervous. Maybe it’s the manner in which they explain things; if they communicate with their hands or if they just talk faster when they’re frustrated — maybe it’s the spontaneous dance they break out into in the kitchen while they clean the dishes or the seven different moods they cycle through and why. I think it’s essential to know that the things that you can only see in a person once you’ve really gotten a glimpse of their soul mean a whole lot more than the things you’re simply just expected to like.
Sometimes the little idiosyncrasies that seem so insignificant on the surface, that you can only catch in passing, when you accidentally look or happen to see them being unmistakably themselves are the ones that pull you in and leave you wanting more of a person. I want more of you.