It's a really small world...
Aug 23, 2024 23:14:54 GMT -5
Post by Cranky on Aug 23, 2024 23:14:54 GMT -5
Through my life I've been amazed how life puts us next to our past.
My wife lived ONE block away when we were children. We probably passed each other's home hundreds of times but we were too young to go outside and play. Being different nationalities and recent immigrants, our families never met. We both moved out of the neighborhood before 5. We met in university 18 years later.
A few years back i was in the hospital for something minor. A few chairs over i heard someone speak English with a Greek accent so I started a conversation with him. He asks me where I was born, same town. I ask him his age. Same age. I ask him which part of town did he live when he was young. Same neighborhood. In fact, we were friends at 13. There was about a minute silence in disbelief. Different continent, 7000 km apart, over half a century later...and we meet again.
Latest one...but not nowhere near the above...I met with an architect this week, I found out that she knows my ex boss who lives next door to her. In a city of several million people, what are the odds?
Sooo...so much for my tiny world.
Care to share some of your "it's a small world" tales?
My wife lived ONE block away when we were children. We probably passed each other's home hundreds of times but we were too young to go outside and play. Being different nationalities and recent immigrants, our families never met. We both moved out of the neighborhood before 5. We met in university 18 years later.
A few years back i was in the hospital for something minor. A few chairs over i heard someone speak English with a Greek accent so I started a conversation with him. He asks me where I was born, same town. I ask him his age. Same age. I ask him which part of town did he live when he was young. Same neighborhood. In fact, we were friends at 13. There was about a minute silence in disbelief. Different continent, 7000 km apart, over half a century later...and we meet again.
Latest one...but not nowhere near the above...I met with an architect this week, I found out that she knows my ex boss who lives next door to her. In a city of several million people, what are the odds?
Sooo...so much for my tiny world.
Care to share some of your "it's a small world" tales?
