Serendipity

This is a recount of situations riddled with coincidence after a significant person briefly came into my life.<br /> I live in a busy city where years can pass without accidentally running into any of my close friends, but I do somehow run into specific people at specific times, repeatedly. I met a man - let's call him K - through a mutual friend (our only mutual friend). I am a freelance designer and work in many different locations all the time, he works part time at an office, at the time I didn't know where. We had an instant and palpable chemistry. It was so bad we would stammer and blush in each others' company, which is not typical behaviour for either one of us.<br /> At the time K was involved with someone else so we reluctantly parted ways before acting on our impulses but I couldn't get him out of my mind.<br /> A few months passed and I got to work on a job in a studio in the center of the city. Not long after I got inside the building I received a text on my phone. It was from K, he just saw me go into the building where he works. It turns out the studio where I had come to work in and his office were beneath each other and he happened to just be looking out the window.<br /> The next time I had to go back to work in that particular studio, we randomly ran into each other again, this time in the pouring rain a few blocks from the building. I was on my way home and he ended up giving me a lift on his bike.<br /> He kept pursuing me without breaking off his relationship so I stopped communicating with him even though this was the first time in years that i had fallen for someone and found it difficult to keep my distance.<br /> It was months after this disappointing experience that I felt like going on a date again with someone else. Then, out of the blue and out of all possible days to pick from, it was on the night of my date that K sent me an email trying to reconnect. By then it was too little too late.<br /> One day not long after that, I was sitting in front of my computer thinking about this situation, and thought this sentence to myself "maybe, you've lost that loving feeling". My jaw dropped at what happened in that moment: I was opening my internet radio station and the commentator said the exact same words, hardly a second after I had thought them. He then finished his monologue with "this awkward moment was brought to you by so-and-so"