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A Year From Now

Okay.  So, earlier today, I messaged a friend of mine.  I haven't seen this guy since 2010, when I went out to Cali to visit.  My mom and his mom were friends when we were growing up and pretty much... He was my first friend, ever.  Well, besides my mom, who was OBVIOUSLY my first friend ever.

He's been messaging me lately to keep my Facebook messages in check.  So, I'm like okay.  Then he's like... Why not just chill?  And I'm like... Chill... I'll try.  And he's like NOOOOO... COME CHILL!  Come to Cali.

I was like oh... Snap.

So, I'm going to make plans to do that in the next year.

I was thinking, hey, maybe he's still friends with people from high-school/middle-school/all the way down to first grade that we went to school together with.

I mean, you never know!  It could actually be that me going to visit Cali... And hanging out with him, I run into a girl I went to first grade with.

Okay so maybe not.  But, wouldn't that be funny if that love of my life I had been searching for was there all along?  That we went to first grade with one another...

I mean, you never know?

Life is strange like that.

If nothing else... We can just bro it up on the beach and then grab brews at a bar.  Or whatever.  It would be fun to reconnect.

On a different and interesting note with this Cali connection, we were also discussing something else about my Facebook status updates, and something more for me to "chill" about.  See, this guy that I know... His sister... Well, she married in to a family who... Well, let's see, her husband's father was at Trump tower on the 29th of November to have a chat with Trump and Pence.

He seems fairly confident we won't all die in a fiery train-wreck by the end of the Trump administration.  Which, is the opposite of what Trumps Twitter seems to suggest.  But who knows... Maybe Trump is just a drama queen on social media.  In all honesty though, my social media has been just as bad as Trump's social media.  SO, I guess who am I to talk?

Anyways, we were discussing this whole thing and basically his bro-in-law's dad says, in so many words, and I'm paraphrasing here... "Everyone just CHILL the heck out... I was a vice president myself once, and I just met with the president elect and vice president elect... and it's not THAT bad."

Okay I don't know exactly what he said when they met... But my friend was just like... in so many words "Chill".

And so it must be not SOO bad if my friend heard it from his brother in-law's father, a previous Vice Prez of The United States... who recently got to "chill" with Trump and Pence.

As a democrat still saddened by the outcome of the election and still hoping for some kind of Christmas miracle that Hillary will somehow through some kind of technicality still become president... I guess, I'm going to trust him.  After all, I've known this guy since we were toddlers, so if his sister's husband's dad, a previous vice prez of the US who hung out with the president elect and vice president elect within the last week says that we'll survive the next 4 years...

I'm going to have to trust him.

So the theme is... When everything is unknown, be it love, or presidents... Chill.