The Surreal Life

Remember when you were little and you had these ideas about what life would be like when you were all grown up? Because I'm not much younger than Methusaleh, my initial thoughts were something like my parents had -- I would become a housewife with lots of kids and a husband who wore a suit and went off to work every day. Obviously things have turned out much differently for me. Which is probably better. I'm a littel ADD, which works out GREAT in advertising, but probably not so much for a housewife. What I'm trying to say is that I'm used to curve balls in life and have abandoned Plan A through about Plan H.


This weekend, I re-met my new beau's mom and son. (I had met his mom during the previous relationship and his son about 4 years ago totally randomly at a AAA office) As I sat in the same dining room I once sat in 20 years ago, watching my ex- and now current boyfriend interacting with a son who is just 7 years younger than he was when we met, I'm just blown away at how circular life is. I mean, who could have predicted when we split up 17 years ago that we'd end up right back where we started? And I wanted so much back then to have ended up like this.


I don't want to get ahead of myself because I still don't know how far this can go. And I absolutely still cherish the life I had with my husband. So I'm absolutely not in the "this was meant to be" kind of mindset. We've both obviously have a ton of issues to deal with, both separately and as a couple. But just the sense of deja vu or deja future or whatever that I had in that dining room was cool.