The Meet Cute
Sometimes, life places you somewhere for a dream you’ve been holding close to your chest for years. You arrive with your mental checklist: goals to chase, projects to nail, deadlines to meet. You tell yourself you’re here for this one thing . But people have a funny way of sneaking into your plans. It starts small, a random conversation at the coffee counter, a shared umbrella on a stormy day, a stranger laughing at the same oddly specific joke you thought only you found funny. And then your mind whispers: Could this be… the meet-cute? You half-pray it is. But also half-pray it isn’t. Because the real meet-cute, the kind that messes with your heart’s GPS, might come with warning labels. Sometimes it’s the “it could cost you a leg or an arm” kind. Not literally (hopefully), but in the way it demands sacrifices you’re not ready to make. The dream you came for? It might not survive the detour. And so you learn. You don’t chase every “cute” you meet. You smile at it, poc...