Life Is So Strange

Image from Yuga. China in July! (Flickr)

I got back into DC today around 6 PM and decided to meet a couple of friends out at the sculpture garden for some live jazz.  Unfortunately, I was too late to make it, but my tardiness may have led to what was one of the more interesting nights of the past few weeks.

In the Metro station on the way to DC, I randomly ran into a friend of a friend, and got to talking with her for the duration of the Metro trip.  It was interesting to see her again so randomly.  After I got into DC, I ran into an old girlfriend.  We talked for a bit, no awkwardness, but strangely, it was something needed.  A couple of hours later, I was walking down the street with Eltahir when these two random girls started calling out to me, and I turned around and talked to them for a while.  Turns out they were “stalking” me (their words) in the sculpture garden (where the jazz was), and were screaming out “Hey you in the blue shirt” to get my attention.  I didn’t hear them when I was in the garden, so when they saw me on the street, they made sure I heard.  After that, Eltahir and I hung out for a good two hours down at Sequoia (love that place) in their outdoor patio.

I’m not one for superstition or kismat, but I do find it extremely coincidental that, a day after I get my apartment in New York, I run into someone that has shaped a huge part of my past, and had such a significant impact on my future (indirectly) – and, in effect, made me realize some things that I may not have realized before.  I had always wondered if I would ever randomly run into her, and if I did, what it would be like.  But at the time that I was wondering that, I wasn’t able to handle seeing her.  I wasn’t ready for it.  Now, I think I am, and it’s interesting that after so much time, it would happen at a point in my life where it would make me realize, and finalize, some things about the past, and the future.  It’s like the timing was almost “meant to be” – at a point in my life where I’m moving on from my foundations and finalizing my “childhood,” I get a chance to truly finalize everything that has been eating at me.

Well, hopefully it will help me finalize some things – with me, you never know.

I’m also extremely glad to have been able to hang out with Eltahir.  I consider him one of my closest friends now, and he and I are very similar.  I can talk to him about a lot of stuff, and I’m thankful to have him, and all of the other people in my life, there for me.

Finally, I consider it extremely interesting that tomorrow I’m going up to Atlantic City with the first girl I really ever “fell for.”  I was really broken up after things fell through with that situation (so long ago), and never in a million years thought that I could hang out with her on a normal basis again.  Yet here I am, getting ready to see one of my favorite bands with someone else that also had a big influence on me.

It just goes to show you that time heals all, and that life is extremely coincidental, and full of irregularities.  It’s so strange.