1 sugar, no honey
Aug 22, 2025
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This is a story.
Well, a hypothetical let's say, for all that it could've been.
This particular gedankenexperiment requires some precursor knowledge about the author. He is a hopeless, overthinking human-being who absolutely does not express his inner thoughts in person. His interests are quite varied and a combination of specific random things. And not being on platforms like instagram, he is also kinda not fully aware of the new genz stuff; and his only way of meeting new people is by random stupid chance. So now imagine his surprise when he meets a person with such an incredible overlap with his interests and choices, it's as if someone reached out inside his brain and cherry picked the cool stuff. 'She hates horror movies as well!?' was just one of his 100 exclamations over the course of ~4 days. He had never met anyone with whom he vibed so much in such a short span of time. But he could also see something else. A sort of 'tired', 'done-with-life' esque look in her eyes that whispered volumes even before they exchanged a single word. And those spelled trouble because he could sympathize with it and felt like that was a part of his own soul.
The walls were so down at this point, that he even let her into his anonymous log keeping site. Mind you, he is very very reserved in general, so this was a big deal for him. And then he made the classic mistake of thinking that she must like him as well. Lol. What a loser.
He spent that whole night researching about Iranian culture and it's history and everything around it. He's sure at least some of his friends think that such a person does not exist because of the sheer amount of coincidences, but hey, he couldn't have made this stuff up even if he wanted to. It's wayy too uncanny. And it absolutely doesn't help his case that she is cute as well. He is definitely a bother to her.
As an aftermath of this whole arc, he wonders if he will ever meet another such person who knocks his hat off with their vibe and coolness. The already low probability has theoretically gone down even further after meeting her, and he thinks this is the kind of never before, never again kinda thing, but who knows. C'est la vie. Learn to have your Chai just slightly sweet - with 1 sugar, no honey.
In the extremely off chance that you are reading this, you know who you are :)
I'm really happy I met you.
Maybe in another life I'd have loved to just sit and small talk with you - for a long long time.