I was thinking about all the things that had to happen for my boyfriend and I to meet. I don’t believe in destiny or anything. I like to have control of my life and thinking that some mystical power holds my future…eh no thanks. I don’t know. Maybe somethings in life are just a bunch of accidents and coincidences.
So how did this happen…My best friend Liz moved in with her college friend, Jess and her sister. Spending time at Liz’s new place, led me to become friends with Jess (my super cool fairy godmother)! Jess and I both were single (pretty much all of our friends were in a couple) so we took solace together as the single girls. Jess convinced me to try OKCupid since she was activating her account again and we could do it together. After a few weeks of harassment (loving harassment, of course), I finally made my account. The very next day I had a few messages, but none that interested me (re: scrubs). I looked through some of the profiles and happened across my boyfriend’s. He had a beard (*swoon*). His profile made me literally laugh out loud (he’s funny). He was starting grad school (smart=sexy ya’ll). And one of his pics was him in a Harry Potter sorting hat (sorta misleading as he doesn’t like Harry Potter but I’ll let that slide). My roommate basically forced me to message him (she said she’d throw me out and change the locks if I didn’t). So I did. He chatted me later that same night. We went out Saturday. Things went well obviously. So within five days, my life changed drastically.
Adding to the list of necessary occurrences, my boyfriend is not even from St. Louis. He moved here less than 2 months prior to us meeting because he was accepted into grad school. He had even been casually seeing someone else right before we met (apparently a crazy girl, but not important).
It’s just makes me wonder. How could all those things line up? Meeting Jess. Giving online dating another try (I vowed never to again). Getting up the nerve to message HIM (I usually waited for guys to message me). Him deciding to move to STL when he did. It’s just wonderfully weird how those things all occurred at the right moment.
