If you spend much time on sites like Gaia or DeviantART you eventually start talking to other people on the site(probably) and possibly make a few friends there. Now, maybe there's a friend that you've grown especially close to. And there may or may not be some degree of romantic interest involved. Now you really want to meet this person in real life, rather than remain pixels on a screen forever. But you have no idea what it would be like to finally meet this person... Want to know something about what it may be like? An experience that has actually happened? Does this sound remotely interesting? If so, keep reading.
This happened to me, I met this guy over two years ago on the site DeviantART, one of us found something the other had posted and liked it, this led to a conversation starting out as just a simple "thank you" that led to many other long conversations over time. I reread old conversations recently, and even two years ago we talked about meeting in person, just never got around to making plans to do so. But despite those never planned out ideas we kept talking, and flirting. Going on webcam many times, and at one point exchanging cellphone numbers. Until finally this summer we made concrete plans to meet up. I was to meet him at the train station one morning, and then we'd go from there.
That day I went to the station early in the morning (well early by my standards anyway) and waited. And the moment I saw him get off the train was surreal. No matter how much you talk to someone online or on a cellphone its still a little strange to see them right there in person. Because part of you still doesnt quite know what to imagine. There is an element of "This is really happening?" during that whole first encounter. It is a wonderful experience, to finally meet someone you've grown so close to over time, but it is also very surreal and strange.
And so very worth getting up early for.
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