The most amazing thing happened to me this week. Before I share this most extraordinary little piece of adventure, let me give you the following, essential information: To get to my office, I have to take two different subway lines and change at a particular stop. Usually, when I change the subway, I walk all the way back to the end of the train, because then I'm right at the exit once I arrive.
All right, so on Wednesday I get up in the morning, I go through all my regular morning routine, I get onto the subway and change at the usual place. I make my way up the escalator, and I arrive just at the same time as the train, so instead of walking all the way back, I get onto the middle wagon. I stand right next to the doors, not because the train is particularly crowded; just 'cos I feel like it. Okay, so at the next stop a man and a woman get onto the train and they stand right in front of me. Looking without thinking at this guy, I suddenly think that his face seems familiar; and familiar as in: I know you from a former life (called teenage years). So I turn off my Ipod and realize they are talking Austrian. And suddenly it dawns on me: I had a "relationship" (well, actually, I believe it lasted about 4 weeks or something) with this guy back home when I was a teenager. After which I never saw him again, because he didn't really belong to my circle of friends or my school.
Isn't that the most unbelievable thing? Granted, that he'd be living in Munich is probably not that unlikely, but imagine what had to happen for us to meet on this particular train on this particular day? Just a shift of thirty seconds or so in our respective trajetories that morning, and we wouldn't have stood in the same wagon of the same train right in front of each other.
I'd say: Destiny 1, coincidence 0. Now I only have to figure out what destiny wanted to tell me with this encounter.
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