Normal People

The other evening (or rather, "some time ago") BA and me reinstantiated our old habit of late-Monday phone talks into its own right. There was a longer break in this habit as well, for several reasons... some of which I can only guess, while others are completely my own responsibility. We did have our share of disagreements over time, mostly on topics where her and my point of view on "how the world works" are just totally incompatible. That evening, I made a conscious decision to change that. She's maybe not my longest-time-friend, but something very close to that, and although I could rather confidently point to the exact moment of time when we started disagreeing on this and that, this fruitless exercise would probably yield no more or no better results than laying the seeds for more disagreements over time. And since we had shared the one or other hilarious time back then, that evening it appeared worthwhile to me to try to look behind the veil of mismatched opinions.
Without getting into too much detail, I could safely say this was the most refreshing normal-people talk on the phone I had in a long time. I liked that very much.