More 2012 Weirdness

I wrote a post just a short while ago called Coming Full Circle. Not so strangely, I had wrote a post with the same title, but different content last year.

Anyway, I've lived in my building for the last two years. I don't really participate in any sort of the social scene they have. I don't even use the facilities on my own too much! It's safe to say, I don't see a lot of people in my building other than in the elevators.

So I pulled into my parking spot after work last week, and I notice this cute girl pull into the spot two from the right of mine. I think I've seen her before with her boyfriend/husband most likely so I just brush it off and walk to the door. She follows shortly behind and we end up in the elevator together. I see her more closely and she looks SUPER familiar. She's from my past for sure, I just can't figure out where/when. I get the feeling I'm looking at her funny, because she's looking at me all weird too.

I decide to speak up and say "you look so familiar". She responds with the same thing. I was pretty sure she was from my late teens. I ask her if she worked at Winners. She said no. Next I asked if she went to Xavier, to which she responded yes. She graduated a year after me. It was starting to come back to me. I asked her name. She said it's Alison. When she said that, EVERYTHING came back to me in a blink of an eye.

In OAC, we met through a mutual friend, Anastasia (who had it seemed this weird crush on me, even though she had a boyfriend). Alison is just my type, she's smart, cute, girl next door type. So back in the days where I was much more care-free about my pursuits, I asked her out. She said yes, only to rescind her acceptance a couple days later. We never really spoke after that other than a friendly greeting in the last few months of my high school career.

I was just so shocked how I struggled to remember for 5 minutes, then in a blink of an eye all those memories just flooded right back into my mind like it was yesterday.

It was a good reminder that as time goes by, that while we remember the great things, that we do get over and eventually forget the bad things.