27/09/2022
You and I have never met, many times before. Our paths might have crossed once or twice, past by on the street, we might have lived in the same neighbourhood all of our lives. But against incredible odds, we just happened to miss each other. It's a big world after all. Our days must be absolutely filled with these chance encounters. That for a million reasons, they never actually take place. Accidental strangers, who just happen to miss their cue. Who share everything in common, except for a time and a place. For years their stories have been in parallel, harmonising 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 actually never meet. It's hard not to wonder where they all are right now, veering away on a tangent in some parallel universe, 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 pain of missed connection as you carry on you 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 ones you love. You never know how easily fate might have tripped 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. Or maybe you'd look back at your life and realise: it's nothing personal- it's all just a coincidence. You never know.
Moment of Tangency: A Glimpse of What Might Have Been
