Someone like you - by shaahana - rambles

There’s a certain allure to the concept of the one you’ve always been waiting for, the one that’s gone only temporarily and that you’ll eventually find your way back to. Embedded in the music we play on repeat, the movies we gather around to watch with friends or the Tiktoks we scroll through aimlessly - this concept of being forever tied to someone gives us a false hope that we cling to even as a chapter of our life closes. More and more, I’ve been wondering if a type actually exists, or if we all go around attempting to recreate the same feeling from the first time we really fall for someone. I’ve seen it in myself, and in friends as we navigate our early 20s and truly, deeply fall for someone for the first time. There’s this magnetic pull to recreate that feeling and hold onto it even as it moves out of your life. Searching for that exact feeling again is to me, no different than being attached to that person. When we want someone we can’t have, we spend our time searching for what

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• Adriana Ceric