it's a miracle we crossed paths | sankalp's blog

Every now and then, I need to remind myself that people I come across both online and offline, whom I think to be similar to and compare with are all from wildly different socio-economic-geographical-ideological backgrounds (so comparison doesnt make sense) and it's a miracle we crossed paths.

Close friends pursuing their masters, friends moving to new cities, batchmates you barely knew who are now your colleagues or neighbors. Whether you're in the same city or miles apart, your lives have taken divergent paths.

The reason I stress the difference in paths is that we often assume we're very alike due to the moments when our lives intersect, but the paths that don't cross, the facets of others' lives we're unaware of, their family background, socio-economic status, and a myriad of other factors create a significant disparity.

We may have spent a lot of time with them which leads us to think we are similar in terms of interests, smartness, socioeconomic conditions, and many other factors. When you factor in the inherent randomness of life, the result is a wide array of diverse paths and outcomes after graduation. It’s a bubble where we forget our unique individualness.

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