Connections

Are funny.
Links between people.
And I'm not talking about drinking buddies, besties or bros.
I'm talking about real connections, beneath a persons consciousness.
When two peoples' souls hold hands.
That's not a relationship which is forged quickly, not by any means. A connection like that takes months, years or decades to build.
It needs to be built on a foundation of friendship, trust, openness, and often a bittersweet history.
Sometimes those two souls never quite manage to hold hands, either because one pushes the other away, or brings them together so fast that they get hurt.
The chance of making a connection with someone is often a gamble, and more often than not, it won't pull through.
But when you meet someone, who you know you'll have a connection with for the rest of time, regardless of whether you're in or out of love, you know it instantly.
A measure of that link isn't how well you work in bed, no.
It's measured by how you can gaze into the other's eyes with no fear of awkwardness or embarrassment;
By how you can sit in absolute silence with them, and yet speak a million words, and feel no distance between you.
By how your 'default' mode is with your arm around him or her.
By when you become so closely synchronized with them, that you not only speak the same, you think the same.
Like i said, it's when your souls hold hands.