forever winking.

It's that time of year again.
Five whole years ago today I was hitched.

We were dumb middle schoolers who kept up with it,
dumb high schoolers who kept up with it,
and now I guess we're dumb college kids who still celebrate this day..
Don't know the story? Here's last years post.

http://nathalliechavez.blogspot.com/2012/09/happy-four-years.html

I wink at a lot of people and I'm sure he does too.
I know we are both winking, flirty, fools.
However, I promise you we've winked at each other continuously, all the stinkin time, for 5 years.
When we passed each other in the hall way, in class, in mid conversation, during lunch, across the room, emoji winks through texts, and probably even unconsciously  when we talked on the phone.
It's our signature thing, it's quick and a smile always follows this tiny gesture.

We've never addressed this topic either, never even asked each other why we do it all the time, it's just understood that it replaces a "No matter where my attention is, who I'm with, what we're talking about.. if you're in the room, I see you, I'm acknowledging it, and you're special."

I LOVE IT.
Because no one catches it and if they do it's over and done before it's acceptable to comment on it.


When we all took a seat at our graduation I immediately turned my head to search for his face. He sat several rows behind me, through the abundance amount of red gowns, tassels, and rays of the sun I was still able to get a glance at his full face. That's all we needed, just a glance. 
2 seconds.
Wink.
Wink.
And of course a grin to back it up.


 If time could freeze I bet it would have froze there, a huge celebration was going on that symbolized an ending, a beginning, change, future, possibilities. To top it off 18 year old, mature, Tyler Nathaniel Class President Pardue was going to enthrall us with an intelligent, well planned out speech.

But at that moment that's not the Tyler I saw, during that fast, blink of an eye moment, it was Turkey and me, 13 years old, and building a fort on the back of the bus on our way home from Washington D.C.



Happy half a decade hubs.
It was a silly thing but it marks the start of our sweet friendship.

College has inevitably took us separate ways,
I don't worry about who you'll be in my life 10 years from now,
and neither should you. I'm already just so grateful to have known you thus far.

Carry on,
 I know we'll somehow, in some way, in some form always be ..forever winking.


;)