Wake up,wake up, I shook my partners arm.
It was early in the morning.
Too early to be waking someone up.
Joaquim Valente and Gisele Bündchen riding bikes in Florida in July.
She looked at me, groggy, expectant.
Maybe even a little scared.
I showed her the headline on my phone.
The picture of them hand-in-hand at Reading Festival.
Hes a regular guy.
Hes, like, someones dad.
She sat up in bed, alarmed.
Give me that, she said, swiping at the phone and zooming in.
He looks like the most civilian man Ive ever seen in my life.
But that wasnt the main source of fascination here.
And shes not the only one (about the non-famous person bit, not the tourist excursion).
Gisele Bundchen isexpecting a child withjiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente.
Lady Gaga has for a long time been with entrepreneurMichael Polansky.
(Hes mega-wealthy, but still.)
Whats the big deal?
(The general public, in turn, puts them on pedestals.)
(Im sure this isnt always the case, but thats the overarching perception.)
They are too cool to care about a persons status.
They care only for romance, for love, for mutual interests.
And thats really hot.
It happens all the time.
But you know what they say: the chances of it happening are low…but never zero.
And fancying someone isnt something that most of us have control over.
Thats just how human attraction works.
Maybe theyd prefer someone who can look after themor knows their way around a boat.
