flashback!

last weekend my brother and his family came over for dinner. he started a new job before christmas, and he was telling me a week or two ago, he was in the lineup at the cafeteria when a woman behind him called his name. he looked over to her and didn't recognize her until she introduced herself. turns out she's an ex-girlfriend of MINE! we dated way back in high school for about two weeks before it fizzled (ok, she dumped me!). then at a school dance a year or so later, we spent most of the night slow dancing together, but nothing came of it. i last saw her after i graduated from high school (she was still in high school). i was home for christmas from my first year of university and was at the local mall when i ran into her. we only chatted a short while before turning our backs on each other and walking out of each other's lives for what i assumed later on was the rest of our lives. i've occasionally wondered where she was, or what she was doing... in those fleeting moments we have about our past. but everytime i did think about her, i assumed i wouldn't run into her again.
it got me to thinking about the people we meet in our lives. people fill some kind of role in our lives for a short period of time, then move on, as if we've learned everything we need to know from them. in some sense, the relationship dies permanently. most people we'll never see again. yet we carry with us the experiences of every thing we've ever done, and every interaction with every person we've ever met.
my brother didn't talk long with her. he said he was planning on having lunch with her sometime. i asked him if she asked about me... he said, without hesitation, "No.".
the bitch.....
:P