I'm a quick learner.
I've been told I'm smart, but that's not it at all.
I'm just a very quick learner.
And it occurred to me that sometimes people hold onto things that they think are so incredibly amazing, until one day something better comes along and they realize how much of what they'd been holding onto wasn't much at all. It was just what they had at the moment.
He told me to pull over.
There was a dirt patch to pull off on to the side of the road beneath a canopy of trees.
He opened the door, got out, and turned his phone on to play some music.
You and Me by Lifehouse.
He opened the door for me, took me by the hand and we slow danced with the lightning bugs that night.
When that something or someone better comes along, you realize just how much of what you had at the moment you'd been holding on to.
