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the sleeps are getting me but i want to quickly share a cute thing that happened at work
so, for context: im aromantic but i sometimes feel things toward ppl that are like. friendship+*. like an extra calming glitter on friendship, where i feel especially connected w/them and their presence soothes me. it can be the foundation of a relationship (like w/my wonderful headspace wife) or a fwb situation (like with my sweet friend m), or it can just be a thing i Feel but doesn't change the friendship at all. it's a feeling that could become more, but it doesn't become anything else without prompting; its default state is to stay as friendship+
so there's a person at work i have friendship+ feelings for. he's v funny, good at his job, generally calm even when things are stressful, which is a quality i tend to gravitate towards. i also find it p easy to make him laugh, which tends to provoke friendship+ feelings in me. it's so nice being able to do that
anyway due to a mishap with his work, he was stuck in the backroom for a while, backstocking a bunch of tiny items (a tedious process, since anything small needs to be neatly wrapped in a rubber band and it takes more focus to count them accurately). he put on a playlist while he worked. i happened to need to grab things from the back while he was in there, and i heard him humming. oh, the sweet things that did to my heart. i was so at ease. i wanted to stay there for the rest of my shift
*i use the word "queerplatonic" too, which i feel is accurate, but for the purposes of explanation i like to give it my own name
the sleeps are getting me but i want to quickly share a cute thing that happened at work
so, for context: im aromantic but i sometimes feel things toward ppl that are like. friendship+*. like an extra calming glitter on friendship, where i feel especially connected w/them and their presence soothes me. it can be the foundation of a relationship (like w/my wonderful headspace wife) or a fwb situation (like with my sweet friend m), or it can just be a thing i Feel but doesn't change the friendship at all. it's a feeling that could become more, but it doesn't become anything else without prompting; its default state is to stay as friendship+
so there's a person at work i have friendship+ feelings for. he's v funny, good at his job, generally calm even when things are stressful, which is a quality i tend to gravitate towards. i also find it p easy to make him laugh, which tends to provoke friendship+ feelings in me. it's so nice being able to do that
anyway due to a mishap with his work, he was stuck in the backroom for a while, backstocking a bunch of tiny items (a tedious process, since anything small needs to be neatly wrapped in a rubber band and it takes more focus to count them accurately). he put on a playlist while he worked. i happened to need to grab things from the back while he was in there, and i heard him humming. oh, the sweet things that did to my heart. i was so at ease. i wanted to stay there for the rest of my shift
*i use the word "queerplatonic" too, which i feel is accurate, but for the purposes of explanation i like to give it my own name
