How do you meet people like that?

So this is how. (contains made up words because this is how it is)
You feel it, in your belly, in your fingertips, that they could be an important part of your life if you are brave enough to make the first step. Start a conversation. Introduce yourself. Ask them out, coffee and talk. Tell them how it is. Don't worry, you'll recognize them, just don't dismiss the signs. Like the feeling of familiarity even when you see them for the first time. The urgency of your heartbeat that's telling you to GO! DO SOMETHING! DON'T LET THEM LEAVE! because if you do, you'll probably never meet them again, and you'll only be left with regret. Be brave next time, risk looking like an idiot - you won't, by the way. Either it works out and you win a friend, or they'll forget about it pretty quickly afterwards.

You'll recognize them because they do something non-ordinary, and it draws you in, fascinates you, in a I-want-to-be-you-when-I-grow-up way, but also not, because in the light of their cool, you need to have your own cool to qualify as their friend. You know what I mean?

They will inspire you, make you smile and laugh and contemplate and realize things, they will always like you-you and never be ashamed of you in company of their (also cool) friends. They will believe in you. Moreover, they will make you believe in yourself.

You will meet them at your workplace, maybe just for a while every day, them telling stories about foreign lands that must be made up, but you'll be drawn to them, you'll wonder and you'll ask them to meet for a coffee and talk, which ends up being the best thing you did for your soul in a long time. And the stories, they end up being true.

You will see them in the subway, and be paralyzed with the sudden want to know this person, hesitating till the last moment to act and hand them a hastily written number to attempt connection. Sometimes they get back to you. Sometimes they don't. It can be scary to connect to a stranger. But awesome afterwards. Kinda like jumping from a plane or swimming with sharks.

You will notice their style, their different-ness, aura, red lipstick, outrageous statements, you will catch a word that resonates and draws you in. You will find your own in places where you feel good, feel alive and in love with the world, almost painful in its clarity. They will get you on a level that happens only in cheesy movies you wish you lived in sometimes.

You will receive a poem written about you, honest and a little bit uncomfortable because it is so open in its observations, and you could ignore it, laugh it off like the others are telling you to, but who writes poems these days and lays their heart open and risk being trampled to the ground by complete strangers? Extraordinary people. Sometimes you wish you were one of them. And I'll tell you what, you are.

Extraordinary people have extraordinary friends. Be brave, listen to your instincts and find them. You'll know it when you see it.