Someone I Knew Once

Have you ever met someone in your life whom you did not get to know for very long, but then they were out of the present's picture again?  And then, have you ever found yourself thinking about said person(s) for days, weeks, months, even years to come?  Let me elaborate.

When I was going into eighth grade (I think it was eighth grade), I went to Geauga Lake with my church youth group.  One of my friends from church had brought a friend with her.  I took a liking to this friend.  But apart from that day, I've never seen him again.  Actually, that's not accurate.  I think I encountered him only once in a grocery store several months later.  But, it was only once.  But I thought about him a lot after the fact.

Same type of scenario, only a few years later:  As you all know, I was in Hawaii for a little less than a year.  While in Hawaii, I went to a Lutheran church there, and met the intern pastor.  He was nice.  I went to a bible study he was holding one time.  We were studying the battle of Jericho, and there were only four of us at the study.  After it was finished, we hung around, a few more people joined us, and we played some sort of game.  For the life of me, I do not remember what it was called (though, I do recall it was quite fun, and I should like to play it again).  We ended up staying at the church until around 1 a.m. playing this game.  At the time, I didn't think of this intern as anything other than a future pastor.  His year was up about a month after I arrived in Hawaii, so he left and returned to seminary.

So, why now do I keep thinking about him so much?  I seem to have developed something of a delayed-reaction crush on him, and it seems to have gone in spurts for the past few months.  Mind you, the rest of the time I was in Hawaii, I don't recall having paid the notion of him any mind whatsoever.  It's only now that I'm back in Ohio that I've started thinking about him again.  And what are the odds I'll actually talk to him again?  

That, and it all seems so long ago that I actually met him.  So, has anyone else ever had this same type of thing happen to them?  If, in the off chance that intern happens to be reading this, I would quite enjoy the chance to talk to you again, through whatever medium which may be available at present.

On a more not-quite-so-pipe-dreamlike note, they're announcing the NEO STC scholarship recipients tomorrow.  One thousand bucks.  I could really use the money.