After almost 20 years

After almost 20 years, how will you get on?

That’s the question we faced when we finally decided to see each other in person after almost 2 decades. Will we entertain each other as much? Will we make each other laugh?

We had a pact: if we bore each other in person, if we find ourselves staring at the walls waiting for the seconds to tick by because we just couldn’t find anything to say, we’d retreat back to our corners, call the experiment a wash, and go back to our distance-mediated lolz.

I’ve never been as nervous in my entire life as I was when I was on the tram between the arrival gates and the Tampa terminal. What on earth was about to happen? So many moments of significance pass without notice, but I was deeply, viscerally aware that everything after January 20, 2012 would be vastly different from what came before. Even with the pact.

And then the door opened, we saw each other. And it was awesome.