All of the best days of my life occurred in the time from the 27th of September 2019 to the present. The bar was pretty low up until then.
What follows is a little tangential to the title of the blog, but it’s necessary to explain the context of my best day. That’s fortunate, as it gives me something to write, as the day itself can be described in one short sentence.
When writing about my life, I tend to mention @redberry a lot. There's a reason for that. I first met her on her livestream on the 27th of September 2019. I liked her at once, she was so sweet and fun to talk with. It turned out that we were born in the same place, Blackburn, Lancashire, UK. So even though I'm in Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA, I felt a bond with my fellow Lancastrian. After that first stream, I joined her stream every time I saw that she was on, partly because I liked her, but also because I felt a connection with her due to our shared hometown. It did make me homesick. It did not take very long before I became very fond of her indeed. She was so different from me, in so many ways, but we seemed to share a lot that mattered, and the differences seemed to complement each other.
I remember with great fondness one stream where she was lying on her bed, really late at night. I think I may have been the only person on the stream by then. I kept telling her to stop the stream and go to sleep. It was a wonderful shared moment. On the 31st of November I joined her stream, right as it started. And that turned out to be quite a stream. It lasted for 9½ hours – and that with @redberry interacting all the time, not just leaving the camera on and doing other things. It was incredible fun, exhausting, and it seemed to have quite an effect on how we felt about each other, though I didn’t realise it at the time. I don’t think she did either.
In the first week of November, I came to realise that I’d done a very stupid thing. I’d fallen in love with @redberry. If I’d thought there was any chance of that happening, I’d have tried my hardest not to let it happen. But I was not guarding against it – how could I fall in love with a woman less than ½ my age, a continent away? Well, I’m an idiot of course. Love isn’t logical, or even reasonable. Fortunately, @redberry loves me too. Over the last year we have become very close. In an emotional sense that is, not physically – sadly, we’re still four and a half thousand miles apart.
And so, at last, to the best day of my life. You may think me a hopeless romantic, or an idiot. Whatever. I claim to be the former.
The day is the 17th of April 2020. On that day I received a message on Instagram from @redberry.
It said simply “For life Lucy”. That was the best day of my life – so far 😊.
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