I’m in so much shock, did this happen for a reason?

An impossible thing happened tonight

In march this year, my ex boyfriend (30 M) broke up with me out of the blue. We had a great relationship over 8 months, up to the point I realised I was doing all the work. He said he dated me out of loneliness and he never fell in love and that really hurt me.

I was devastated and confused.

I had this plan that if I ever came across him again, I would tell him all the things he did to upset me. Obviously that was a fantasy as…

I moved away and started a new life and job, and we never spoke again. I assumed I would never ever bump into him again complete no contact. It made me feel very sad because he stayed friends with all his previous exes, so I took this personally.

This evening, I was travelling to London as it’s my birthday so I was going to see my friend. My train into London was delayed by 30 mins and when I got to the underground stop, I had just missed a train. So I was stood waiting on the platform.

All of a sudden, my ex walks round the corner. This is completely unusual as we both didn’t even live in London and were both just visiting.

He looked tearful, hugged me. We talked for half an hour, turned out we were visiting friends in the same area. He told me he wasn’t having a good time, hated his job, hated where he lived, had nowhere to go for Christmas, it was all quite negative. He still had the same low wage job that he had when we were together which surprised me and he had put on a lot of weight. Whilst I was extremely positive, telling him about my new job, new life in a different city. I told him I had just travelled straight from a work training course. I was relieved too as I was dressed nicely, my hair was good and I felt confident, a lot of men were smiling at me as I walked past.

I told him that I was very hurt from the breakup. He said ‘it was never anything bad.’ Whatever that means? He also said to me ‘you look good,’

I think from nerves I rambled on about some random things, I hope that wasn’t weird. I realised I was very friendly, and nice to him. He hugged me and we left each other. I felt it was all very mature

But I’m completely shocked how low the chances of that happening were. I’m not very spiritual, but weirdly I feel like that interaction was supposed to happen?

I did feel a little disappointed that he didn’t ask me many questions about my life, I feel like he really must not care about me. He didn’t even realise it was my birthday. But maybe that interaction is what I needed to move on

*tldr

London is such a big city, I’ve never bump into anyone I know, there is 8 million people there*