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what a difference five years makes
this morning I opened up my in-box and found an email from my ex-boyfriend. or rather, from my ex-fiance. (oh yeah, that's right boys, I'm marriage material! ooowww!)
um, anyway. besides being filled with the usual hi-how-are-you-how's-the-weather pleasantries, the email also contained the following sentence: "My girlfriend and I are getting married on April 3 :-D We decided after I returned here from NY."
the "here" is the foreign country he's been living in for the last year. the "returned from NY" is January. the smily face is just annoying. also, the last I'd heard (which was a long time ago), they'd broken up. again. this leads me to imagine one of three possible scenarios:
a) the weeks apart made them realize how strongly they felt for one another and how much they wanted to be together.
b) the weeks apart led to a big fight about their relationship, which was resolved with a dramatic and hasty engagement.
c) he knocked her up.
hopefully it's option A, and they'll have many happy years together. on my end, the most interesting thing about this news is my lack of reaction, especially considering how I spent years thinking I was in love love love with him and crying salty tears about it. but now, nothing. no wistfulness. no remorse. no reexamination of my life to date. the most I can manage is a wry smile while my mother's favorite saying runs through my head: "congratulations on your almost certainly doomed venture".
Very well said.