Reunion

This morning I had breakfast with an old friend of mine.  One of my oldest friends really, we met in high school and have had intermittent but intense contact ever since.  When we're close, we're really close.  We are able to empathize and understand each other in incredible ways and conversation can be awesome and inspiring.  However, there have been times when he has been incredibly and I mean incredibly arrogant and hard to deal with.  I pretty much wrote him off about three and a half years ago, after telling him to humble himself down and be a decent person or I didn't want to have anything to do with him anymore.  He swore up and down that he had seen how his behavior basically sucked and that he would be a better friend, but I basically didn't see him after that conversation.  He's also been my rock in the past.  When I was falling apart, he let me live look to him and cling to him for support and perspective.  He even put up with the probably terribly obvious but misplaced crush I developed on him, cuz he was, you know, superman.  It's been two years since I've seen him, and today we were able to come together with genuine love and care for each other and begin to reestablish a powerful friendship.  We've both  been through a lot since we've seen each other, done a bit of the old growing up and life-stuff.  I'm more confident than ever and he seems to be more humble, in a non-forced kind of way.  And not down on himself, but calmer and probably actually more self-assured, when it comes down to it.  Not so much like he has something to prove.  He's still super awesome, and I still super admire him.  But for the first time ever, I feel like his equal.  Something I probably always was, but just didn't see.