I’d transitioned from wanting a partner, to being a content and busy single person, and really wasn’t looking to find anyone to be with at that point. (I know this is a cliche, sorry, but it’s true!)
I was volunteering as medical staff at an electronic music festival, and there’s this huge kerfuffle over the radio. Some dude is high as fuck and having a drug induced psychotic episode in the forest. He gets tackled by 6 security guards and brought to the medical room, going in and out of consciousness.
Meanwhile I’m listening to this on the radio, stuck in the med tent taking splinters out of messed up peoples feet, and in walks this super hot guy in a lion onesie. He asks me where his psychotic friend they just brought in went to, and if I can find out how he’s doing. I tell him he can sit down and wait while I go find out. The patients girlfriend appears too, understandably super upset with the whole situation.
I give them an update, and the girlfriend goes in to see the patient, lion man and I start to chat. We quickly realize we have a weird amount of things to talk about, plus some mutual friends.
He’s pretty messed up too though, which I realized right away (and I’m working so I’m dead sober) his eyes were pointing separately in all kinds of weird directions. But the chemistry between us was still undeniable. After an hour or so of dealing with more splinters and chatting with him, I finish my shift and head out dancing. Lion man asks me to find him later, I do not. It felt weird that night, with his friend having such a bad time. I do however message him on FB a few days after, and get a very positive response. The rest is history.
We’ve been happily together for quite a while now. I guess if his friend hadn’t got so messed up, we would never have met that night, but I’m so very glad we did! And his friend was also fine. My lion man has even patiently waited with me while I had my very own psychotic episode at another festival a few months after we met. Now that’s what I call true romance? Or something like that anyway... Grrrrr.
There is always hope, and life will always surprise you. But remember to enjoy being your awesome self first!