A Beautiful Breath of Fresh Air

"YOU are a beautiful breath of fresh air...and I truly needed that tonight, thank you for introducing yourself! Best train ride I've ever taken!"

I often wonder about just how many people share this planet with me. I wonder about how many of them I still have not met and am destined to meet. I wonder about how much I will learn from them and what purpose they will serve in my life. 

I think it's true that everything and everyone presented to you in life serve a specific purpose. I try to understand why things happen and why they had to happen in the way that they happened and at the exact time that they happened. Everything in the universe is connected and sometimes all you really have to do is listen. It might take time to really understand and interpret a lot of things - especially the painful things, but eventually everything always connects. 

Over the past two weeks I have had the pleasure of meeting so many new faces. Some I have kept in contact with, others were just fleeting conversations in Uber Pools or on park benches. Although all of the people I have met have completely different backgrounds, they all seemed to be happy to share their lives with a complete stranger. I think there is something to be said about the fact that most of us feel more comfortable sharing the most private aspects of our lives with strangers as opposed to people who we actually know. It's so refreshing to feel like the universe has brought you to a complete stranger to just KNOW them. To hear them and to be heard by them. 

The quote at the beginning of this post was a message I received tonight from someone I met on the train today. It was an extremely long day and the horrible weather ruined a lot of travel plans - delayed trains and canceled buses... but I guess it was meant to happen so that the 3 of us could get stuck on that train together. I made two new friends tonight. Two amazing and genuine friends who made my heart feel so full by the end of the train ride. We were three completely different people with different problems and at different stages of our lives, yet we were able to connect in such a beautiful and intimate way. I have been feeling so stuck and so down but tonight has helped me in so many ways. After receiving the message I just found myself sobbing, but tears of joy. Sometimes we all just need a good cry and a change of perspective - sometimes we all just need to hear and be heard.