Let not arrogance blind us into becoming judgmental, narrow-minded and intolerant of people who think differently than us.

A few nights ago I found myself sitting across from someone I've admired for years but hadn't until that night met. In a quiet, dimly lit bar in Manhattan's East Village, we sat over New York sours and caught up on each other's life. The conversation quickly moved toward the area of both our struggles: relationships.

It was the ultimate foreshadowing, since it was a jetty where the veil was at last lifted, the wind blew her hair across the corner of her smile and I fell madly in love. The forever kind.