Chemistry 12/08

Sparks, lightning, excitement. What is this thing called attraction? How is it that either two people "click" or they don't? Take two reasonably attractive people of the opposite sex and throw them in a room. Sparks will fly, or....they won't.

I can remember back in high school. Seeing the hot guy walking down the hall towards me. Sweaty palms, stuttering, panic. Did I affect him the same way??? um, nope. *grins* What was it about this person that made me behave like that? It was the hair. That perfectly layered hair. nahhhhh that wasn't it. There was more.

Ask 10 people this question"What turns you on?" and you are likely to get answers ranging from "big boobs" and "great pecs" to "a great sense of humor". The chemistry of attraction is a funny thing. It's so subjective to each person's individual history. There are triggers in our subconscious as to what makes us "click" with some people and not so much with others.

I was watching "GREY'S ANATOMY" tonight(yeah...ok I'm one of THOSE people). There was this moment, with Dr. christina (stoic, non-emotional) and Dr. Hunt(new guy, mysterious, smart, HOT). Well, they've kinda been building up to something, these two. Dr. Christina is visibly upset about something and struggling to keep it all together and Dr. Hunt sees how she is abou to cry and he takes her by the hand and leads her down the hallway and tells her to "wait...its something really special". He takes her down into the bowels of the hospital to the furnace room.

She's looking at him like he's a lunatic and he stands her on a grate in the floor. She starts to turn and leave and again he says"wait...this is really good...you're gonna love it". At that precise moment a rush of air comes up the grate and just like Marilyn Monroe's dress in "THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH", it blows up her entire body, causing her to laugh and giggle and catch her breath. Her whole face is suffused with such wonder and joy. Then he steps onto the grate as well and there is another big rush of air and they're both laughing and smiling like children. Then he just starts kissing her and they are so caught up in the whole thing and there's just all the air whooshing around them and time is standing still.

That's how great a mutual attraction can be. There are no words. After the attraction part...Well...then comes the hard part. What the hell do you do with it?????!!! Do you play it out...see where it goes? Explore the possibilities? Do you try to build on it, make a castle out of sand? Do you play it out, and realize that the attraction is better turned into a deep and lifelong friendship with someone who will always know you just a little bit better than anyone else on the planet?

The world is an amazing place when you just open yourself up to it. Smile at the charming stranger, give the girl with the pretty green eyes the once over. She may give you a look in return. It's out there. Waiting for you.

I'm standing on that airshaft grate, the air is whooshing all around me and I'm laughing at the sheer joy of it.

I, for one, am really liking the whole thing.