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Unknown people Have you ever thought about that every unknown person who passes by you on the streets could be, in other circumstances, someone from your social circle? Someone you like and love or someone you would despise. It’s interesting because we tend to see other people just as unknown, but they’re like us, they have their histories, beliefs, opinions, decisions and a lot of them could be similar to our own, which makes it easier in case we engage to meet them. That’s why the person who passes by us on the streets could be our best friend if we had the chance to talk to them. Which is obvious, almost every person you know today was once unknown to you, till an external influence happens to make you start a contact. The same thought can be applied to people you know, for example your best friend could be totally unknown to you right now if you had made just one different decision the day you met each other. You meet someone in a party and you become close friends with time, this could be totally different if in that day you decided not to go to that party. This is also obvious, since every decision we make influences in the outcome of our lives later. So, out best friend could’ve been right on our side today in the bus and we’ll never see him again in our lives.

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Unknown People

Have you ever thought that every unknown person who passes by you on the streets could be, in other circumstances, someone from your social circle? Someone you like and love or someone you might despise.

It’s interesting because we tend to see others just as unknown, but they’re like us, and have their histories, beliefs, opinions, decisions and a lot of them could be similar to our own, which makes it easier in case we engage to meet them. That’s why the person who passes by us on the streets could be our best friend if we had the chance to talk to them. Which is obvious since every person you know today was once unknown to you, till an external influence happens to make you start a contact.

The same thought can be applied to people you know, eg. your best friend could be totally unknown to you right now if you had made just one different decision the day you met each other. You meet someone in a party and you become close friends with time, this could be totally different if in that day you decided not to go to that party. This is also obvious, since every decision we make influences in the outcome of our lives later.

So, out best friend could have been right by our side today in the bus and we’ll never see him again in our lives.

Very well written! An interesting speculation, too. A good German film 'Run, Lola, Run' has been made around this theme. In some ways it's good, in others bad (from a probabilistic point of view).

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Bluebottle told me about your article because he thought it would like me -he was right. This topyc makes me wonder about destiny and the different ways our lives may have been and will be deppending on our decision -no matter how important or insignificant they are. Everyone is recommending films for you to see so I won't be less: First, and well-known The Butterfly Effect. And less known, Mr. Nobody. You have film to watch for about a week.
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this reminds me of a book called "the lake" by Kawabata Yasunari . You should check it out :D

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