I've come to the conclusion that this year is the year I get to do a lot of things I've never done before, and two nights ago, for the first time ever in my adult life, I got to sleep over at a complete stranger's house.
Yesterday, there was this early morning appointment that I had to attend to; the only problem with that was that the appointment was scheduled at a different state in the country. Usually this wouldn't be a concern for me if the time for the appointment wasn't so early, but it was, so it meant I had to do one of two things.
It was either that I woke up super early at my place and tried to see if I could get to the location for the appointment on time, thereby risking getting there late, or I go a day earlier and just find a place to stay. Now, sadly, I'm broke, so the option of getting a hotel room was out of the picture for me.
The next best thing I could do was ask a friend if I could stay with them, but every friend I knew in that state either was staying with a sibling or a relative or they just weren't in town. So at first I thought all was lost and that I was definitely going to miss my appointment, well, not until a lady friend of mine had suggested that she knew a male friend of hers that had a two-bedroom apartment that she could maybe talk to.
At first I was going to ask her not to, because as an introvert, it was already difficult enough for me to burden my friends with my problem, not to talk of bothering a complete stranger. But the appointment was an important one, and I really needed to be there, so she spoke to him on my behalf, and the dude had been kind enough to say yes.
Trust me when I say that I felt really awkward staying over there, but the guy ended up being a really nice host who gave me my space and tried not to make me uncomfortable, but unfortunately, I'm always uncomfortable whenever I'm away from home, and that definitely made my stay there a lot less enjoyable than it most certainly would have been.
But yeah, I'm probably never doing that again, but I'm glad I did. I just hope and pray I get to be more open-minded to things like this because I'm sure I will get to meet more interesting people this way.
