The Song: "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield

The Event: L.A. Trip

Kismet is an odd thing.  Coincidences or unconscious actions - however you want to define it - can lead to creating profound associations that last well beyond the events that spawned them.  And sometimes the associations are either unbidden or unwelcome - but they persist and insist on their own existence.  Such is my relationship with Natasha Bedingfield's hit song "Unwritten."  It's a simple little pop anthem encouraging people to seize the day and all that other "live for the moment" crap.  Ordinarily I would tune it out like so many songs from American Idol "winners" or that song about Delilah or whatever.  But due to the associations I've formed with the song, I linger a bit longer on the radio station while it plays.  Or I don't roll my eyes immediately as it's the background song for some soft-focused television commercial.  Instead I think about Los Angeles and my ex-girlfriend.

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