As many of you on the chat know, I have been dealing with a traumatic relationship lately and I have been really down. The person involved was a woman-friend of mine who I had worked with and also fallen in love with. She did not share my feelings, so the end of our friendship was inevitable. It ended with me being very hurt and embarassed and her being furious.
This was only four days ago. Today I went to Home Depot in Manhattan. I was walking down 3rd Avenue, and I walked right past her. She didn't see me, as far as I know. Let me put this into perspective. There are 8 million people in New York City. she is the only one of the 8 million that I didn't want to see! She lives in the same neighborhood as the store, but so do thousands of others. The odds of us walking down the same block at the exact same time, so close to our falling out, are ridiculously remote! I have only run into two or three co-workers on the street in my entire 5 years working in NYC.
This meeting was a gift. It put things into perspective. The odds of me meeting her in the first place were remote as well, because I was originally to be assigned to a different office location. And if we didn't happen to work in departments that dealt with each other, we would've never talked to each other. It is very possible that this situation and heartache would never have happened if a couple of small factors had been different.
Life is really like that in many ways. We have no idea how long we will live, who will enter or leave are lives at any point, and even what will happen tomorrow. Life truly is what happens while you're busy making plans!
So that was the revelation given to me today. I'm not nearly as sad now, because there is always the chance that I may just meet the love of my life tomorrow. You never know!- Brian
This was only four days ago. Today I went to Home Depot in Manhattan. I was walking down 3rd Avenue, and I walked right past her. She didn't see me, as far as I know. Let me put this into perspective. There are 8 million people in New York City. she is the only one of the 8 million that I didn't want to see! She lives in the same neighborhood as the store, but so do thousands of others. The odds of us walking down the same block at the exact same time, so close to our falling out, are ridiculously remote! I have only run into two or three co-workers on the street in my entire 5 years working in NYC.
This meeting was a gift. It put things into perspective. The odds of me meeting her in the first place were remote as well, because I was originally to be assigned to a different office location. And if we didn't happen to work in departments that dealt with each other, we would've never talked to each other. It is very possible that this situation and heartache would never have happened if a couple of small factors had been different.
Life is really like that in many ways. We have no idea how long we will live, who will enter or leave are lives at any point, and even what will happen tomorrow. Life truly is what happens while you're busy making plans!
So that was the revelation given to me today. I'm not nearly as sad now, because there is always the chance that I may just meet the love of my life tomorrow. You never know!- Brian
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