It’s a little strange, how you find yourself moving in one direction or the other, with a motive or a plan and then life throws a branch in front of your stride and you find your ass over tea kettle, wondering how you landed where you did.

I think I could say this has happened to me at several points in my life, but rarely in situations where my heart is involved.

I haven’t really talked about this a lot, but I feel like I want to write something down.  I feel like I’m going to want to remember it, some day.

We first started talking online a few years ago.  Neither of us can remember when exactly but I remember she had just broken up with her girlfriend and me with mine (for the first time) and we both just needed…something, neither of us was sure what.  She was sweet and it was great to talk but nothing came of it.  It turns out, we both went back to our exes for a period of time and deleted our profiles and that was that.

Fast forward to some date recently, when I was sitting in a coffee shop with a friend, waiting for another friend and this girl she had met at a bar a week ago.  In walks the friend’s friend and girl she met at the bar (are you following?) and – girl she met at a bar turns out to be girl I had been talking to a few years ago.

Huh.

It was an interesting night to say the least and the next morning, she did what I tried to do but couldn’t – found my email address from way back.

Hi….I know this might be a little strange but I had so much fun last night and….yeah.  It was really great to see you.

We went out again that night, just us this time.

And now….now I don’t know where things will lead but I have a strong sense that coincidence isn’t exactly what you’d call this.  And that this story….this will be something I might be talking about years from now, too.