The Dawn of the Big Snowman

"so..okay.....I guess you will just pace me on my board while I run....cool?"

"okay."
I pause then say, "Do you even know how to ride a long board?"
"no" he says.
"do you know how to ride a skateboard?"
"not really."

We are on the Gateway trail ready to go for my run and he wobbles back and forth.
"Are you okay?" I trot next to him ," Are you going to make it?"
He says yes while still not understanding the techniques of a long board and I'm probably not really the best person to describe them to him. I've always just done everything by intuition. So when I say you just step on and go it's no surprise that for about a mile it's nothing but trial and error and a t-shirt completely drenched in sweat.
At the end of my run and his first long board session with my board we reach home in one piece.
Later that night we lay on his bed watching football and I realized I really didn't like watching football. But he just went eleven miles of pacing me while almost breaking his back so it was the least I could do.
Then it occurred to me that while these things are the kinds of things that you really stress about with the idea of being in a relationship someday when your single and losing your identity or what not it's a really great thing when you are in a relationship and you compromise peacefully and doing it because you really care about the other person.
You get the idea of love maybe a little bit better.