Don't I Know You?

Every year I attend an event in February and for the last few years I have seen someone I had a relationship with.  And every year he pretends he doesn't know me. 

The first year I was a little surprised to see him.  It had been several years and it caught me off guard.  I wasn't sure what to say but I wanted to say something - just a hello at the very least. 

He walked by me and left while I was talking to someone else.  And the last few years it was the same thing - he makes it a point to ignore me. Which I think is so completely odd.  I don't know, maybe I'm the odd one but I just don't get it. 

I went on dates and dated quite a bit but I haven't had a lot of relationships (4 including my husband).  Although my relationships were few they were each long term.  And I guess I just feel like with each of those men there was something about them that I liked - I appreciated who they were as people.  So yeah, the relationships didn't work but I genuinely cared for each of them and I still wish the very best for them.

My husband has a different mentality – to him an ex is an ex and who cares what happens to them.  But his relationships were all short - the longest only lasted 6 months.  I think it's different when you spend a significant amount of time caring for someone.  I don't know, I’m just wired differently than that.   

So maybe this guy just has that same mentality as my husband – I’m in his past, so who cares?  But I guess that’s the thing I don’t understand the most.  It is in the past.  It’s over and done and we don’t mean anything to each other so why is it so difficult to find the maturity to say hello?

So I had decided that this year I was going to hunt him down and say hello and ask him how he is – like I would with every other person. And then last night I had a dream that I was at the event walking to talk to him and an eagle pooped on my head.

Don’t get me wrong, I still plan on saying hello, I’m just going to make sure I’m indoors when I do it…