Everyone taking a Step

I can’t believe I’m writing this because it’s also pushing me to keep asking myself…

Does art imitate life or is it the other way around?

I have been asking myself this question since the early 2000s. Things happen in my life that I can’t help but see as an echo of things I see in movies.

Here’s the punchline of all of this: my kid (with someone else’s kid) is trying to “parent trap” me and their friends’ parent to date, fall in love with and end up together to live “happily ever after.”

Even more comical? It’s kind of my fault (and the other parent’s fault) that it ended up like this. I actually previously dated this person and then we stopped dating and decided to try friendship instead.

There were a myriad of reasons why he wanted to stop dating. I was sad about us not being able to date but it was easy to understand why and how he felt as he did. Still, we genuinely liked each other so much it was hard to not (at least) be friends and quit wanting to be in each others’ life.

I wasn’t sure what a friendship would look like with him — especially because I honestly did like him so much. We didn’t talk for almost a solid week straight. It was weird for it to happen like that on my end but I didn’t know what else to do.