Grenada that’s so awesome!  The work you do sounds super impactful.  I get what you mean about mental health hitting home…I felt that way in college too and ended up majoring in psychology, even though I didn’t end up pursuing it as a career.  I can’t imagine the types of things you encounter every day.  Just the thought of kids who went home to no parents is heartbreaking–it’s really frightening how bad things are right now for a lot of people.

And lol that’s so funny/strange that our TF’s are practically twinsies.  I had watched some of the videos you recommended (the twin flame revolution ones on youtube) and it was funny how much the “runner” twin flame reminded me of my TF (i forgot her name, but she’s super cool).  Just her general attitude and the conviction in her voice, her powerful way of speaking…it reminds me of my TF and why I was was so drawn to him.  It seems like she went through a period of intense addiction too, just like my TF.  I almost wonder if an addictive personality/habits is a commonality in a lot of TF runners (and chasers for that matter).

And yea the music thing is kinda crazy.  Like, I really love music and it’s always been a big part of my life.  Since the very night I met my TF he expressed how important music was to him (within like 10 minutes of meeting him he took me to his room in the middle of a party to listen to his favorite Frank Ocean tracks…dorky I know lol).  It’s like music has connected us from the start.  And I remember something he said that struck me a lot, about how, for him, music is an outlet allows him to express and feel emotions that he normally would feel uncomfortable with, or that society looks down upon.  It’s like he feels this pressure to present this positive, cool guy view to the world, when deep down he has a lot of heavy emotions brewing.  It makes me sad for him that gender stereotypes contribute him to him feeling that way—to him not being able to connect with his emotions outside of music, or to not feel comfortable expressing them with others.  I see a lot of myself in him, because I used to feel the same way, until I realized that building solid female friendships and leaning on them for a support was a way for me to release and express old toxic emotions and memories.