I found myself looking through a classified ad style website today, and was drawn to the section called "Missed Connections."  It is simply a place for the love lorn to seek those with whom they felt they may have had a connection, no matter how brief or trivial.

This sort of ad is for the optomistic. What are the chances, really, that someone will connect with you for a few minutes, and then, having felt the same draw to you as you to them, will go actively seeking you out on that sort of ad or site? They must be astronomically high, because if I were to be in a similiar situation, I wouldn't even think to look for someone like that, let alone think that I had occupied someone else's thoughts to that degree. But the ads are all so sweet, you can feel that tender sort or yearning for one human being to connect again with another. To feel so strongly that you would put yourself out there like that, hoping against all odds that you will find them, is so incredibly endearing. How could you say no to someone who posts how much of an impression you left on them for the world to see? 

It's the sort of insane, defeating the odds sort of thing I would to have happen to me. Not right now, not considering what kind of mess my love life is in. I have left my husband, and come to terms with C., although he is acting pretty wierd, especially for him. I'm not looking for them or anyone else to do that sort of thing, especially when they both know how to contact me, at any hour of the day or night. No, what I am talking about is leaving that kind of impression on someone who knows nothing more than the fact that they need to talk to me, to hear my voice, that I occupy their thoughts. That, really, is flattery at it's finest. I think it's the kind of gesture that every girl should experience at least once in her life. I don't want it to happen for me right now, but maybe someday, somewhere, there was some poor, hapless soul who longed to know more about me, searched for me, longed to talk to me more. It's a sweet thought, at least.