Do I believe in
fate? I’m not too
sure. But what I do know is that there’s
something out there looking out for me. About a
year ago or so, my
little brother (who’s six now) started
karate at a
studio near our house in
Boulder, Colorado. He had been studying for a few months and went in one day after seeing a demonstration by one of the studio’s
instructors , when he came home and said to me,
“Joel, Joel, Joel!! I’ve found the perfect DATE GIRL for you!!”
Now of course I was thinking that he had found some cute little girl who was probably way too young for me, so I naturally blew it off. I disregarded it even more when my parents began to agree with him on the subject. Not that I had any prejudice against her for any reason, for I had never met her, but I just couldn’t imagine how a six year old knows how to pick out girls for his 18 year old brother to date. It also didn’t help that I had just started dating another girl (whom I eventually dated for just over 8 months.)
So Daniel forgot about the date girl and I did too, till about a month after I broke up with Sarah. I had lunch with Sarah a month or so after breaking up with her, just to tie up loose ends, and that’s when it hit me: I was over her. Granted I had broken up with her, but she also hurt me pretty badly. It was not that pretty of a breakup and it took me a little while to fully let go. In any case, that following Tuesday night, [Tuesday July 18th 2000, to be exact my friend Taylor and I were out driving around and had just decided not to go to a certain club to see a DJ that was playing there. It so happened that he wasn’t going to come on ‘till around midnight and I had to work the next day, so we decided to just call it a night and head on back.
On our way back across Boulder a light turns red and so of course the good drivers and upstanding citizens that we are, we stop, and up beside us pulls up a blue 4Runner. A 1988 blue 4Runner to be exact. She pop’s her head out of the driver’s window begins a little exchange with us:
“How old are you guys?” Becky said.
“18”
“What’s your number?”
So I gave her my number and then at the next light I asked for hers, where right after I did she was a little giddy, as was I, after having someone ask for her number and almost ran the red light we were at. We couldn’t stop laughing. It was hilarious.
That next day I called her up and we started talking about stuff and things. After a little while we started talking about jobs and she mentions that she teaches karate in a studio in Boulder. I mention to her that Daniel, my little bro studies at a studio in Boulder, and as it turns out she works at the same studio. And what’s more, she’s also the DATE GIRL that Daniel was talking about the 9 or 10 months prior. I don’t know if it was fate or what but there was something at work there. What’s more is that she and I are still going strong. It will be 4 months this Sunday and I have to say that even after only 4 months I love her more than anyone or anything that I’ve ever loved before. Even after that 8-month stint I spent with my ex-girlfriend I’ve never felt like this before. It’s the most wonderful feeling that I’ve ever felt before. Just the feeling of knowing that someone out there thinks the world of you is a great feeling.