a heart on fire.

last night, i spent four hours talking to someone who i would never have imagined talking to for nearly that long.

i'd seen him one night over a week ago. he had just finished playing a show that ended with him breaking up with his girlfriend of two years. i basically had a short session of girl talk with him that night, helping him to feel better about the situation and the impending change in his life. apparently, guys don't do that sort of thing for other guys?

so last night, he was in the final stages of breaking up with his girlfriend, and apparently needed someone to talk to again.
not sure why i was the someone, especially considering the fact that we spent the first part of our conversation discussing how we used to hate each other. ha.

it was a good talk. a really good talk. i honestly think i helped him, and little does he know, he helped me realize a few things too. i gained a bit of closure on a chapter of my life. and all because he reached out to me because he needed some more girl talk. :]

i didn't realize on my way over to talk to him that i would leave feeling the way i did. i had no idea that our talk would actually have an impact on me.

i was listening to this song tonight, and i thought it was somewhat applicable to this situation. you really don't need to watch the video... it's totally ridiculous. but the main lyric is "with heart on fire, i reach out to you tonight."
the cool thing about music is that everyone can interpret the lyrics to mean whatever they think, unless of course the artist has spelled it out for you somewhere. i'm taking heart on fire to mean a breaking heart. but it could mean so many other things too. and you know, on a different day it probably will mean a different thing to me. i tend to do that with music... :]

so. you might be wondering who the mystery person is?
andrew valdez.
i guess i've known him for over eight years now. he and garrett were essentially best friends when i started dating garrett. we didn't get along at all.
last night, he told me that i was right about him back then. wow.
i've been thinking about it though, and i have to say... it's just really cool and even inspiring to see how someone can change their life around and come out on such a better side than when you first knew them.

so.
who did you think i was talking about?