Serendipity

Today is my ex's birthday.

We haven't spoken for a year. I didn't wish him happy birthday last November. I certainly have no intention of wishing him one this year (in case you didn't realize, it was a bad ending [okay, several bad endings]).

But it's his birthday today. It occurred to me while I was out for a walk.

I turned on South Park when I got back. It's "Kenny Dies." There's a particularly rousing moment where Cartman convinces Congress to overturn a ban on stem cell research...via a musical rendition of "Heat of the Moment."

We watched that episode together and agreed on the absolute awesomeness of that song. Somehow, we decided it would be our song. We didn't decide whether it was the South Park version or the official recording from Asia. I believe they were interchangeable.

And so it was.

It proved sadly fortuitous ("I never meant to be so bad to you/One thing I thought that I would never do"), but that's another story. My life's been much better without him in it. Still, whenever we heard this song we'd smile, whether we were fighting or getting along.

Just seems odd that the song comes up on this day, of all days.

I'm still not calling him.

But the song played, and I smiled.

I guess that's something.