The space between

A Bestest is an experience rarer than Bismuth crystals. I suspect most people go through life never knowing they exist.

I suppose there have been other people in the universe who have experienced the anomaly of such a unique and beautiful experience, but I doubt that there are too many.

It is not mutual admiration, or lust, although I suppose that could be a part of it.  It is not idyllic worshiping, or putting someone up on a pedestal, although I can see how that might happen in the beginning.

It is not so many things, but it is easier to explain what it is not because we all have experienced those things.

It is a connection that goes beyond intuition, beyond want, beyond understanding. It is a wholeness that has nothing to do with being one. It is loving yourself for all the beautiful things you find in the Bestest, because you understand that, at some level, they are also in you. It is loving each other, not just for the light that flows through you, but because of all those amazing little chinks of darkness that make you vulnerable and needy and adorable.

Nothing is more whole than the space between a Bestest and Bestest. It is trust personified. It is the void in all its spectacular wholeness. It is the freedom to be exactly who you are with no fears whatsoever.

It seems too good to be true because it is so rare, but it is truer than anything else I've ever known.