04-20-2016, 10:43 AM
I was just pondering the other day one of the most synchronously weird events in my life. It was around meeting my high school boyfriend Chad, who I dated for a year and a half...
I was browsing Livejournal one day (it was very common to have an online journal/diary in the earliest 2000s - before the word "blog" was even invented!) and was especially bored, and noticed the "random" button - I'd never clicked this before. I decided to shuffle it, just a couple of times. Within 1-3 hits of the button I came upon a blog with an avatar of a generic looking teenage boy - girls were the vocal majority on LJ, so I thought random must have done me well so I decided to read some deep thoughts of a teenage boy.
Quickly I realized his latest entry was talking about playing a show with some punk bands that were local to my hometown - bands I'd seen before. I thought that was an interesting coincidence in itself, and went to look at his location, assuming he lived in a neighboring state. Turns out, he lived in a suburb 20 minutes away! AND, he was also in a local punk band, and my friend's brother was their guitarist. I'd seen this band play before, but Chad was their extremely quiet, odd-man-out bassist. Another friend of mine had just started seeing Chad's little sister, too. I had a memory surface of a few months prior, seeing him at a show and holding a door open for him. It was really strange.
So I must have been moved to comment on randomly finding his page, and we became LJ friends. We chatted a bit and I found out that even though he goes to a different school district, he drives into town to go to "Central Campus", which was an alternative high school that had higher level/college level courses. I took Japanese class there. He took a computer class (that had two of my friends in it, who I'd stop and chat with almost daily). We were there, every day, during the same morning periods. It was extra weird.
We decided we'd say hi to each other one day. I mentioned to my one friend Mark that I had met a kid from his class, Chad. Really confused and excited, he said, "Chad-kun?!?!" and my brain really broke. Because for those of you who are familiar with Japanese, -kun is a suffix added to the names of, well, mostly young boys, or friends. The more common ones are -chan (cutesy, diminutive) or -san (formal, respectful). But Mark wasn't saying "Chad-kun", Chad's last name is a phonetic spelling of -kun that I won't type out in case he googles himself.
Then Chad and I met, hit it off, and had a really nice relationship. Then he broke up with me in a horrible fashion (he started spending time with a 15 year old girl while I was on my 3 week graduation trip to Japan and broke up with me when I got back, I later found a photoshoot she had send him of herself in her underwear!) I was pretty heartbroken because it came from nowhere. I did get full-circle gratification a couple years ago from a mutual friend, however, who lived in the same city as him for a while and spent time with him. He apparently lamented often about how wrongly he did me. Most likely because his relationship with the highschool freshman didn't work out. (he was 19 at the time)
So yeah, totally weird. Our guides are probably very grateful for computer-coded RNGs.
I was browsing Livejournal one day (it was very common to have an online journal/diary in the earliest 2000s - before the word "blog" was even invented!) and was especially bored, and noticed the "random" button - I'd never clicked this before. I decided to shuffle it, just a couple of times. Within 1-3 hits of the button I came upon a blog with an avatar of a generic looking teenage boy - girls were the vocal majority on LJ, so I thought random must have done me well so I decided to read some deep thoughts of a teenage boy.
Quickly I realized his latest entry was talking about playing a show with some punk bands that were local to my hometown - bands I'd seen before. I thought that was an interesting coincidence in itself, and went to look at his location, assuming he lived in a neighboring state. Turns out, he lived in a suburb 20 minutes away! AND, he was also in a local punk band, and my friend's brother was their guitarist. I'd seen this band play before, but Chad was their extremely quiet, odd-man-out bassist. Another friend of mine had just started seeing Chad's little sister, too. I had a memory surface of a few months prior, seeing him at a show and holding a door open for him. It was really strange.
So I must have been moved to comment on randomly finding his page, and we became LJ friends. We chatted a bit and I found out that even though he goes to a different school district, he drives into town to go to "Central Campus", which was an alternative high school that had higher level/college level courses. I took Japanese class there. He took a computer class (that had two of my friends in it, who I'd stop and chat with almost daily). We were there, every day, during the same morning periods. It was extra weird.
We decided we'd say hi to each other one day. I mentioned to my one friend Mark that I had met a kid from his class, Chad. Really confused and excited, he said, "Chad-kun?!?!" and my brain really broke. Because for those of you who are familiar with Japanese, -kun is a suffix added to the names of, well, mostly young boys, or friends. The more common ones are -chan (cutesy, diminutive) or -san (formal, respectful). But Mark wasn't saying "Chad-kun", Chad's last name is a phonetic spelling of -kun that I won't type out in case he googles himself.
Then Chad and I met, hit it off, and had a really nice relationship. Then he broke up with me in a horrible fashion (he started spending time with a 15 year old girl while I was on my 3 week graduation trip to Japan and broke up with me when I got back, I later found a photoshoot she had send him of herself in her underwear!) I was pretty heartbroken because it came from nowhere. I did get full-circle gratification a couple years ago from a mutual friend, however, who lived in the same city as him for a while and spent time with him. He apparently lamented often about how wrongly he did me. Most likely because his relationship with the highschool freshman didn't work out. (he was 19 at the time)
So yeah, totally weird. Our guides are probably very grateful for computer-coded RNGs.
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