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[Apr. 14th, 2009|04:15 pm] |
When I go to Alaska this summer, I'll undoubtedly meet people, possibly interesting people, possibly people that I'll become close to for the rest of my life. But I don't know them yet. It's interesting to think though that those people are out there, doing whatever it is they do, not knowing about me either, but somehow we're on a collision course towards each other. We're each individually bouncing around in the world on separate trajectories, not part of each other's universe, but destined to meet. And once we meet our experiences will be entangled together forever. It's the same when I go to a new city. I experience the buildings, the streets, the people, the scenery and for the first time it becomes 'real' to me, but those things have always been there, the people I see have lived there all their lives, that tree has been growing in that very spot for longer than I've been alive. But until this very moment it wasn't part of my experience.
Similarly it's trippy to think that since a person can't become President of the US until 40 or so, and each President can only serve 8 years, that means that there are currently 5 people (or more) walking around right now that one day will become President of the US. Maybe they're hanging out at at the mall, or walking around your school, or cutting you off on the freeway today. You don't know who they are, but there out there somewhere living their lives, on a collision course with the oval office. |
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