No offense but I think you are kind of putting this whole thing on a pedestal and overly fantasizing about it because "waiting your whole life" isn't that long when you hit puberty in the past like 3-4 years lol

If you guys are meant to be it'll happen no matter what and you won't lose touch if there's really something there. I liked a guy and we lost touch, ten years went past us, we reconnected and we're married now.