Spandex Briefs
One of the best things about college, for me anyway, was meeting my roommate and having him talk me into wearing spandex briefs for the first time. I should mention that he probably does not think that this is the best thing from his past since I was extremely against wearing anything of this nature. I had a very negative issue with appearing less masculine in any way. I felt that wearing anything other than boxers as underwear or board shorts for swimming was a perfect example of that. You could probably say that I was a bit homophobic and I would not even correct you on that assumption.
My roommate was the type of guy that simply didn’t care what anyone else thought of him. I envied him for that but also mocked him for wearing his spandex briefs around the dorm room. I honestly thought that I was in trouble some nights by the way he would look at me while walking around in those tight briefs. After a few months of very loud and egregious arguing, he got me to try on a new pair that he had just bought. It turned out he bought them two months earlier in the hopes that he could get me to try them, too. I finally put those damn spandex briefs on just to shut him up and immediately lost control of my entire life.
I had a feeling wash over me that I simply cannot explain in mere words. It was like the person that I was supposed to be finally stepped out of the shower, wiped the steam off the mirror, and saw ME as the reflection. This is where my life had taken me and this was what I was supposed to be doing, and that scared the hell out of me. That was 15 years ago, and I am still proudly wearing my spandex briefs every single day. My roommate is still with me and we are celebrating 18 years together as one of the happiest couples I have ever known. All of our family and friends can see that we were meant to be together. If it was not for him putting in the effort to get me to wear something that I felt was not masculine enough for me, there is no way to know where my life would have been. Something that I can pretty much bet is that it would not have been good, and I would not be anywhere close to as happy as I am right now with my partner and my spandex briefs.