Save Your Social Grace

I met someone this weekend.

I was at a social gathering and feeling rather forward as I have since my break-up...it's a new me and I like it. I am really embracing my beauty and the force inside of me that animates every cell toward my own greatness and...well, it shows and it comes across in bold expressions of daring.

I connected with a gay gentleman at the social and he asked for my number. I replied with, "I'll give you my number on one condition." Of course he asked what that would be. "Make sure she gets it, " and I nodded in the direction of the beautiful lady with him that evening.

She has since sent me a text.

I fear I may have turned her off from here but only time will tell.

She shared something rather intimate with me in the text - it was unusual by mainstream standards but I find that people open up to me in ways that they rarely understand and it jives with me, so it's all good. I replied that it (what she shared) was a powerful story and she apologized, saying she wasn't sure why she sent it.

This is where I fear I lost her...my reply:

"It's all good - if you knew me better, you'd know I scoff at social graces and prefer to get to the core of a person...save all the fluff and give me the goods, ya know?"

I don't apologize. I meant it.

I would much rather navigate the richness of someone's inner world than lightly skate the surface...save that 'what do you do, who do you know' crap for the lightweights...I'm a soulquaker.

This field of openness and options is so new to me...I'm going to bask here for a while.