He hugged me like a Teddy Bear

Have you ever met someone that has renewed your confidence in mankind?

I did the day I met Teddy. I am sure I've probably written about Teddy before somewhere on this blog but if I haven't this is how the story goes.

During 2005 I did some traveling. I being the mad person I am decided to go and "find myself" as some people call it. My aim wasn't really to "find myself " yet I'd never traveled alone before and it was a challenge I'd decided to set myself. So off I wondered all over the place.

While travelling I met Teddy. Teddy and I'd met online previously to travelling I met him through a site and it just so happened he shared some of my passions. I finally met him, face to face, on a day that I was missing home, in fact it was a day I was really home sick and missing friends and family. Now don't get me wrong I met people daily in the hostels, but that for me was the problem. You see I was trying to squeeze so much into the little time I had I never really got past the whole initial small talk thing and because of that I felt so lonely.

The day I met Teddy was amazing he traveled 4 hours to come and catch up with me, and when he turned up I felt like I didn't have to be making small talk I could be me completely. We recognised each other instantaneously from the photos and when we hugged there was no awkwardness we ust held each other tight as if we were seperated lovers catching up again.

During those 2 days Teddy showed more chilvary than I'd ever experienced. He wouldn't let me pay for a thing which although was very nice was also very hard for me to accept. He made sure that when we were walking down the street I was on the inside away from the road, he'd offer to carry my bag for me, he'd pull out the chair for me before sitting down and eating, he was purely caring in every sense of the word. He even bought me a gift as a reminder of the time we spent together. If that wasn't enough on those days I laughed so hard, he made me smile so widely and he was also quite pleasing on the eye so that wasn't bad either ;).

Some may say I was a little naive back then, meeting some guy I'd only spoken to online, in a differnet country, but the truth is he didn't lay an innaporiate finger on me. He was a gentleman in every ounce of the word.

After I returned from my trip we emailed each other a few times, and text every now and then but soon enough we lost contact (which is actually quite funny because before I met him we'd not spoken online for a few months). Even though I tried to get back in touch whith him via email he didn't respond and I soon assumed that I'd never hear from him again and that brief short time we shared together was something that I was suppose to remember while smiling and not worry about never hearing from him again.

That was until Christmas Eve when out of the blue I received a text from him. I responded and thought ahh I probably wont hear from him again!!! I was wrong on New Years Eve I received a text from him, to which I replied and then he replied. This was strange after just over 8 months of no contact me and Teddy seemed to be in touch again. This was craziness so I couldn't help but want to text him a general text with no agenda to see if he'd reply or whether he was only in touch to wish me a happy Christmas and New Year. He replied to my general text and I can hardly believe it.

The man who showed me by his actions that there are some men in the world that will go beyond your expectations and go that extra mile for you was back in contact with me and that same wide smile I had when in his company reappeared on my face. Even if this is just one of those moments that soon will be gone, there is no way I am going to forget my Teddy Bear.