Memoir

Unfamiliar Gravity

Collins Ombikhwa

Some people grow into love naturally. Others encounter it as something disorienting, an unfamiliar force that does not follow any of the rules they have learned to rely on. In Unfamiliar Gravity, connection does not arrive as comfort, but as disruption. What should feel simple becomes heavy with meaning. Conversations linger. Small moments expand. Intimacy, instead of offering clarity, exposes a deeper uncertainty that cannot be easily explained or controlled. Much of that uncertainty is shaped by an upbringing spent entirely in all-boys schools from grade school through high school, where meaningful early exposure to girls and emotional interaction with women never truly existed. As attraction intensifies, so does the pressure to understand it. The military becomes the first institution where daily life suddenly involves working alongside women from diverse backgrounds without any prior experience navigating those dynamics. What begins as curiosity turns into overanalysis, and distance becomes the only way to regain stability. In the silence that follows, a difficult realization emerges. The struggle was never just about another person, but about emotional development that had remained incomplete. Unfamiliar Gravity is ultimately about becoming capable of experiencing love itself.

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