meeting people

As I sit here uploading five million fotos for all those who have been requesting them so fervently, I begin to ponder the phenomenon of meeting people.

One idea that I have always struggled with is the entity of the human soul. Everyone knows from baby-hood that they are one person and that they are different from every other. It is easy to run across one soul and get away completely unscathed, but there are moments in life when an encounter with another person is so strong and mutually affecting that there is no way to get away without regretting the good-byes. The more this occurs, I've found that it becomes more and more difficult to look forward to encounters with new and different people. It remains easy to build the respective bridges and form new alliances with those around me, but when I am highly aware of an impending good-bye, my heart likes to withdraw from the experience of connecting with these people.

I think that God made us specifically capable of saying good-bye and also of meeting new people, otherwise it wouldn't come so naturally - by naturally I mean that it happens no matter where you live or who you are... it is a constant phenomenon that will continue likely until the day we die.

The greatest part is choosing those who are willing enough to give it a go until that very day. I feel that there are people I encounter that I would love to know forever, and others that I wish I had never met. To be sure, there are people that I would love to continue knowing but will not have that chance especially under the circumstances in which I find myself now.

Mel met someone. She is one of the wisest girls I know, though sometimes a little goofy... She encountered another soul on this here planet and decided that with the willingness of her friend to continue knowing each other, they would begin a journey that might lead toward either of the two paths I mentioned above. The joy and pain of finding out which it will be is the story we call life.