If It Didn't Suck....

Now this has happened to me before, but I believe I am older and more mature or more jaded to realize why this is so. What I am referring to is the myth of coincidence when it comes to occurances that happen while dating. Let me clarify. You don't particularly care for a certain singer. Your date or significant other does. Suddenly you hear that singer all the time on the radio. A particular phrase. Word. Sound. Smell. I put forth the theory that it isnt kismet or coincidence but the mere fact that now you are cognicent of the phenomena, therfore more aware of it. Therefore thinking wow I could not have missed that all this time it must be fate.
I give you my case.

It is simple in nature but I had a few dates with this woman I'll call Katelyn. She is a Jersey girl who loves Bruce Springsteen. Now I like him but he isnt one of my favorites. While we started talking I would hear Springsteen on the radio. While we dated it got worse. I heard him on the way to work, on the way home and when I played the radio to go to sleep. I would turn on my high def music station on TV and it would be Bruce Springsteen Storytellers. Bruce was ubiquitous for some time. I too thought of the fate thing the kismet thing, but I am a realist, so even after the relationship dissolved. I made a point of listening for Bruce, and lo and behold he was still there. As he was all along. It just so happened I was more aware of him because someone I was involved with liked him, so when I heard him, I was more aware as opposed to just listening along with the radio as a backdrop to my life.

I am reminded of what a friend and porn store proprieter once said, "Doug, there are no coincidences." In the case of this sort of kismet, I would say he is right.