At one time, each one of us is alone in our individual universe however we define it. Then by some probability, causative or coincidental -or if you allow me - a causative coincidence, we make an acquaintance of another person.
Now if you think about that moment, when two specific persons meet at exactly the same time at the same place and introduce themselves to each other, it's quite magical...the mathematical probability of such is infinitesimal. Thus an acquaintance in life is far more special than a winning lottery ticket.
Sometimes I wonder how a particular someone has gotten into my life, I go back to the place and the moment we met. If it weren't for that encounter, our worlds would have never overlapped, our individual lives would have just carried on - for better or for worse. For some, I find it difficult to imagine what that'd be like, yet it was something I was constantly aware of until I made that acquaintance. A world once seen, is difficult to be unseen.
As easily, people can disappear from life, sometimes for reasons unexplainable by words. Perhaps there are just aspects of life beyond our control.
I often wonder what each person is supposed to be in my life. That man standing next to me on the bus, the girl sitting next to me in the lecture, and that cute person at that debate tournament, and whoever else that I crossed path with. How else can I know their roles in my life, unless I go up to and say 'hi'? Why not take that chance, for that the encounter, which is less probable than anything else that may come after it, has happened?
Yet as casual as the first 'Hello' may sound, it's just the beginning of a story, sometimes a short story without much content. Others, they turn out to be longer: an adventure book, a love story, a tragic play, or even a fairy tale, or perhaps a combination of all of the above.
The television gives us many stories that make us laugh and cry, but sometimes it's just better to take that chance and write our own stories with our acquaintances.
