Love and T-Shirts

I was reading a book and listening to Pandora when a John Mayer song entitled, "City Love," came on and reminded me of a past dating relationship and of future relationships. The lyric that sparked the memory is this:

"She steals my clothes to wear to work, I know her hairs are on my shirts."

Now, my past girlfriend didn't steal my shirt but we exchanged two shirts when we first started dating that symbolized important parts of each of our lives. She gave me a shirt with "CC" for Cross-Country on the front and with "Fleetfeet" on the back. It was gray with blue lettering and came with a pair of running shoes she bought at Fleetfeet because she was a runner in high school and continued to run for fun and fitness.

I gave her a gray shirt with FSU in red lettering on the front. The story behind that was several guys in my youth group in high school and my youth minister bought cheap gray t-shirts with Harvard on them and I grabbed the last small one. They all looked the same except my shirt had FSU on the front and so our attempt to promote Harvard's sports teams as a joke in the mall kinda failed because they would yell "Go Harvard" and well, I had a FSU shirt on in the midst of the Harvard shirts. So, a shirt with an inside story about the guys in my youth group who were very important to me in high school, especially the friendship I had with my youth minister.

When we broke up in my 2nd semester of college, we never saw each other again and I have lost her CC shirt. However, for ten months we shared those shirts and much, much more for a mostly happy time. She contributed to my life and I did to hers until we started heading down different paths and could no longer maintain the relationship.

In reflection, it was a big turning point in my life and John Mayer's song reminded me of the good times in that relationship. So, here's to the future I have with the girl who I can connect with and share on that deep level again. Life is too short to not love :)