Vortexia's Secret

damn, i thought i had already written a post. i check before i turn off the computer and realize i haven't yet. which of course means yet another evening where i don't get my HNT pic posted the night before so there are no angry mobs. damn, i need to set my priorities in line.

so i'm going to tell you a little story. it's called mayhem's past life. he's got an interesting story, but i'll condense and distill a lot to get to the point. during his most badass time of his life, he was up to no good, but also pretty involved in a church youth group. very bizarre and doesn't fit with all the shit he got into the rest of the week, but there it is. i think it started with his mom forcing him to go and the big perk of free vacations to the slopes and the beach with kids his own age with not enough supervision so he could get into more trouble. anyway, for whatever reason, that was the case. he was super close to two of the guys in the group with him, who at the time were way more straight edge than him and were verrrry religious. after high school graduation, they kind of went their separate ways and all lost touch. he ran into one of them not too long ago at his same old same old job he's had for ages as a waiter in the area. at first he thought he was pretty much the same old guy, but as he pieces more together he realizes that this guy is totally different. he's now atheist, has a live in girlfriend, and has a kid (i think with the current girlfriend). he used to be very religious, say he was going to wait until marriage, and would have never had a kid without marrying the girl should he slip. the second guy, mayhem just learns about last week. he's slow to tell me about the changes this guy has made, but he finally shares that the guy is now in gothic, pagan, and covered in some not-so-innocent tats.

he's going on and on about how different they are and how he almost started to think he bumped into the wrong guys because the ones he knew would never be like that. i had to stop and remind him of all the changes in his life and how much different he is in so many ways and how i'm sure they would fall off their chairs if he told them all about this new life and the steps in between. not to mention how much his look has changed. honestly, yes those are drastic changes for those guys, but in some ways, mayhem has changed even more. if i wasn't there for the entire transformation, i would swear up and down it was two different men, and i still feel that way at times when i think about the old him and the new him. so i can imagine it's even bigger to them.

oddly enough, he doesn't seem to realize he has made such huge changes. he kind of made noises that indicated he sort of saw what i was saying, but he still didn't really think he was that different. yeah, those changes occurred over several years, but if you cut that out and look at then/now, it's pretty major. i think he kind of got it finally.

anyway, no idea why this is post-worthy, but i'm sharing even if it isn't my life. now you know a tad bit more about mayhem (other than the fact that he's the luckiest damn guy in the whole wide world, which is the reason you're jealous of him). now that i've acted all cocky and full of myself, i'm going to bed. hugs and kisses to my loves!