Sooner than later, that's when I hoped to meet Drake. My favorite song by Drake is also called Sooner than Later and it is exactly 4 min and 22 sec long. Ironically enough the day I met Drake was April 22 or 4/22. I'll just go ahead and say it that was the best day of my life. I guess should be a little embarrassed by this but I'm not . I could easily tell this story in like 10 pages but I'll try to be as concise as possible.
Because I arrived about 4hrs early to the show I got front row and boy was it worth it! About 10 min in the show he locked eyes with me, bent down and sang about 30 secs of his song Sooner than Later while looking at me and only at me. Then about 5 min later he sang another song to me but this time while holding my hand. Throughout the concert he would talk and flirt with me and the entire time I felt as if I was in a dream. It was unfathomable to think that out of all the gorgeous girls at the show he singled me out! Before the concert I had always told people that Drake and I had a connection though they thought it was funny I guess its kind of true. Anyways I ended up being invited to his after party and getting this pic with him.
Then on May 25 I went to another one of his concerts where he actually remembered me. About halfway through the show he stopped all of sudden and said "hey girl I remember you, how you been" I could have died at that moment. I then was able to get another picture with him, though I do like my first picture with Drake better.
My last name is Long, not long in the sense that it has a lot of letters but rather that the word long itself is my last name. Its funny that long, which implies great length, is in actuality a word that is quite short in length.
Because I am super tall I don't think there is another word that would fit me quite as well unless maybe if my last name was tall. I remember when I was in the 6th grade my teacher used to poke fun of me and call me Natasha Short and interestingly enough it was the first time I realized that my last name Long fit me quite well.
Because there are 39 definitions of the word long from Dictionary.com I'll just choose a couple that eerily relate directly to me.
long
–adjective
1.
having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.
(I have already spoken about this definition in relation to my long body)
2.
forward-looking or considering all aspects; broad: to take a long view of life.
(I tend to be always looking to the future, I am a person that rarely just lives in the moment)
3. experienced as passing slowly, because of the difficulty, tedium, or unpleasantness involved: long years of study.
(long years of study-this is exactly how I feel about my seemingly never ending college experience)
I've always had a love-hate relationship with definition 1, my height. Growing up I was either admired for my height or poked fun at, though I definitely feel the latter happened more frequently. People would call me names like giant or tree and I can't even begin to count the number of times people asked me if I played basketball. I always wanted to say yes I'm tall and no I do not play basketball; you're short does that mean you play mini golf.
Because I'm tall I feel it is impossible to blend in, and sometimes blending in would be nice. I'm not a person that likes to be the center of attention so when I'm walking through stores and people are staring at me I feel extremely uncomfortable. HOWEVER...sometimes standing out is a pretty nice thing. At the Drake concert being tall definitely worked to my advantage. I don't like to think I was only noticed because of my height but I'm not gonna lie I know it contributed to the reason I drew his attention.
