i'm over you but he's not over her

"Hey man, what were you doing there that night... on a date, with a new girl ar?"

I braced myself for that slight familiar twinge of hurt you feel about those you have loved and lost. Or even liked and lost.

I didn't feel anything. I pushed harder.. and waited... and I still didn't feel anything.

And that felt great. It took a long time coming, but the day finally arrived anyway.
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My friend is going to be a dad. I'm really happy for him, at least, until he tells me that he moves on autopilot most of the time in his role as husband, son, son-in-law. And he does it so well that he doesn't think anyone realizes that he's sometimes not happy, and wishes for something else, this other person in his thoughts for the past year, somebody his alter ego thinks just might be the one.

Except The One arrived 5 years too late.

You know the other word for Murphy's Law?

It's ironic.

No, two words.

Fucking ironic.