You
and I have never met, many times before. Our paths might have crossed once or
twice online, or passing in the street. We might have lived in the same
neighborhood all our lives, but against incredible odds, we just happened to
miss each other. It's a big world, after all.
Our
days must be filled with these chance encounters, that for a million tiny
reasons, never actually take place. Accidental strangers, who just happened to
miss their cue.
who
share everything in common, except for time and place.
For
years, their stories might've been happening in parallel, harmonizing from
somewhere across the world, but neither has any idea that the other even
exists.
If
two lines are truly parallel, it means they'll never actually meet.
It's
hard not to wonder where they are right now, veering away on a tangent, in some
parallel universe. It's hard not to glance at a stranger in a crowd, and
imagine the life you might have shared if things had been different. You feel a
pang of missed connection as you carry on your separate ways, leaving nothing
but an echo of something that might have been.
You
never know how many things had to happen exactly right for you to meet the one
you love. You never know how easily fate might have tipped you onto some other
course, meeting some other person, who would feel like a soul-mate.
Maybe
you'd still be telling your friends it was always meant to be. As if you knew
all along that your paths would cross. Or maybe you'd look back at your life
and realize
it
was nothing personal, it's all just a coincidence.
You
never know.
TJ
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