My sophomore year of High School I drew artwork for my art class. Some lady asked to speak to me and told me how amazing she thought it was because she had just had a baby and it spoke to her because I drew a fetus in the womb which I made look like a sun.
I had another art show my senior year and a lady again said my work resonated with her. I remember this because only one person commented positively about my work.When I was 20 I drank a lot and smoked marijuana often. I also worked at several stores at CrossRoads mall where Ctiy Creek is currently located.On breaks, lunches and days off I would walk across the street and get samples from the Hickory Farms kiosk because being stoned so often I usually had a raging case of the munchies, it's like being really poor cause your always hungry.I don't remember anyone who worked there.
One of the stores in worked in was a custom t-shirt shop where I made myself a shirt that said "I heart toxic waste." Ala the Real Genius movie.
I remember two Molly Mormon ladies who stopped me one day in the good court and asked all about my shirt. They were either laughing at me or with me, I couldn't tell.
I also worked at one kiosk where we sold incense. I remember one woman who came by now and again with 3 kids and profusely apologized for any misbehavior which struck me as odd given how well behaved they were.
When I met my wife what we didn't figure out until two years into our marriage that she remembered me hitting her up for free samples at the Hickory Farms kiosk she worked at.
And she remembered me from the incense kiosk as she was the woman with kids I remembered. She was also one of those two women who grilled me over my toxic waste t-shirt.
She also remembered me and my artwork from my senior year art show.
Our lives kept circling back around on each other.
We kept meeting until we eventually fell in love. And we are soon going to be sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.
If you ask me I'll tell you she got me back into the church but if you ask her, she'll tell you I'm the reason she came back.
We both had a path to go down so that we fit together like pieces of a puzzle. We by then, both knew what we wanted out of a relationship and how to get it.
Our marriage counselor said to us "You are both better together than you ever were apart."
We make a strong couple because we are a good team, we are life partners not only husband and wife.
I feel like it was serendipity that kept bringing us together until we finally fell in love. It makes me think we were truly meant for each other.
