No I didn't win the lottery, nor did I go on a fancy expensive outing, nor a crazy adventure.
On the contrary, it was a day full of simple things...
Yesterday, I was studying with one of my best friends. We talked. We joked. We laughed. We wrestled, chased, and fought with each other. Yes, he's stronger than me, but he has always been. And we got food together, offered to pay for each other, ate together... played together and worked together. He smiled. I smiled. Simply put... we spent quality time together.
And time is all I ever wanted. I felt SOOO happy, I felt like Agnes when she got that fluffy unicorn.
AND he offered me a half eaten peach.I was super giddy inside.
Yup. That made me happier than it probably should have,
But it made me think of something I read about... a story about Duke Ling, a ruler of the northern-central state of Wei (a Chinese empire) from 534 to 493 B.C. One day, a court official, Mizi Xia, gave Duke Ling a half eaten peach, and Duke Ling was like "How sincere is your love for me! You forget your own appetite and think only of giving me good things to eat!" This story becomes like a common allusion for gay love in Chinese literature I guess. And yea... Chinese hystory is full of funny homosexual leaders. hehehe. Anyway, I probably took the whole thing all wrong, but sharing a peach with me is a kind and cute notion nonetheless. I have such an awesome friend.
(The peach story I got from a book Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton. I thought I'd include this reference because I did write some of the story word for word.)
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