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You ever stop to think about how interesting it is when you meet these people who end up being very important to your life? Out of all the people in the world, all the lives running parallel to yours, all the strangers you pass every single day without a second glance, somehow, you met this one person who becomes an integral part of your life.
I could have chosen to do anything differently that day and my whole life would be so very different (and I don’t think in a good way). Just think, I made one small decision that changed the trajectory of the day. And here we are.
I don’t know how much of that is fate and how much is coincidence. I don’t know if things are meant to happen or if meaning is something we create after the fact. But I do know that some connections feel different. They feel improbable, how in the world did these two strangers just come together and fit. Like the universe looked at all the chaos and said, “These two. Right here.”
When I think about it too long, it can sometimes feel overwhelming. All this movement. All these people. All these moments that could have gone another way. And still, somehow, we met.
It’s hard not to see and treat these connections a little more gently. Some things I just don’t want to lose, and I’m still learning how to hold them gently without holding too tight. Hard not to pause and appreciate the sheer odds of it. Of all the places I could have went that day, that was the place you were. Of all the topics that were posted, you saw mine and were moved to respond. In a world this crowded, this loud, this constantly moving, finding each other at all feels like something worth celebrating.
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