There are so many brief encounters between strangers every day. It’s like there are tiny invisible threads connecting every single human being at any given moment in time, and sometimes those threads reel two people in to one another, and they end up living together or marrying.
But then other times the threads stretch and pull apart, and the two strangers go their separate ways, never to meet again. They could have married or been friends or had lives together, but now their chance is gone.
And sometimes those threads even break, and these two people have done irreparable damage to one another that they can never reverse.
What a beautiful, terrifying, tragic thought.
And who knows? Maybe we’ve glimpsed each other across the street, just like you said. But we’ll never know. xo