Have you ever just been living your normal life, with the mundane daily grind, when suddenly a stranger bursts into your life like a whirlwind, bringing with them both old familiarity and new perspectives?! Except in this case, I’m not sure who the stranger is… who the whirlwind is!
For those of you who have been following, my last post spoke of such a stranger. I casually wondered if we’d ever connect and finish a conversation we started during a very brief encounter. I didn’t know his name. I didn’t know anything about him. Perhaps we’d never finish our conversation. Perhaps we would never meet again. Our vastly different lives, careers, locations, age gap, stages of life… our lives truly had no reason to intertwine.
But they did. Twice! And why? Just to be strangers?! Seems odd doesn’t it? Why would the universe make two people keep bumping into each other until their worlds collide? Do we have Karmic Debts to pay one another? Perhaps he was my worst enemy in a past life! Or do we simply have a task to complete together that was left in complete in another life? Friends? Is it just destiny? Or is it all just a big fat coincidence to be forgotten or pursued based on whatever we feel like doing.
Me being me, I can never resist connecting with people. Girls, Guys, Young, Old… if there is a magnet there, I can feel it. I especially cannot resist people who shower me with a sense of familiarity. For those that don’t know, I can sense vibes strongly. I can read a room, read a person’s vibes immediately. I’m almost never wrong so long as a person is just being themselves. So when I read a vibe of familiarity so strongly as I did with this ‘stranger’, I just knew I had to find him. We have some role to play in each other’s lives that only time will tell.
For those who have been following and asking me about what happened next – I searched for the young man with zero expectations of finding him. But the internet is a vast place and will power is a strong force.
The exciting news is that I did find him after all, though again fully expecting him to ghost me or just be completely disinterested in having a conversation. What turned out to be more exciting is that he was thrilled by the contact and to be able to finish our conversation!
A month later, I can’t exactly call him stranger any longer. He doesn’t know it but I truly learn so much from him whenever we interact! Though so much younger than me, I constantly find myself shocked by his maturity and the fact that it far surpasses the maturity level of folks in my own “Millennial” generation and the generations that preceded mine. His thought processes and how he handles conflicts in his own life has given me such a different perspective of the Gen-Z generation. There are times (sometimes) find myself quite fearful of not being able to keep up or handle some behavioral characteristics that GenZs are stereotyped for, but he has never once (yet) displayed those behavioral patterns. Perhaps one day we will come to head between our millennial vs genz ideologies, but even then the interaction and understanding seems to be so forgiving that I can only hope that I will be privileged enough to continue learning from him for a lifetime.
Truly, cheers to perspectives, cheers to learning, and cheers to the start of a very interesting interaction!
“Hey Stranger”
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From a mind that spends a lot of time thinking... 