The chance of meeting someone random

I went to the city area for a walk today, in Marina Centre to be specific. My Paya Lebar house is near the city area. Wait... Okay, so to me town is the Orchard/Somerset area, while city refers to the landmarks that are always featured if you ask for Singapore's skyline. Okay? Okay.

So I took a walk in the city area, and my head was bursting with memories when I stepped into Marina Centre. It's where I'd gone prom shopping with the girls back in 2011! I wouldn't want to talk about prom exactly, you can read about that here [link].

I bought myself some laptop stickers, and then went for a little dinner at Pizza Hut. There, I stumbled onto a schoolmate of mine, from secondary school, the same batch from me but from NT. I don't know if he recognised me, if he had even noticed me there.

My thoughts started running through all kinds of possibilities as usual, and suddenly I had a crazy thought: what are the statistical probabilities of having someone cross your path in life? What are the chances that someone random and you will meet someday, just like that?

I thought of it this way: imagine if you notice a cute guy, and he happens to be with your old schoolmate. Say, Cutie points you out to Schoolmate and says you're cute. If Schoolmate doesn't recognise or remember you, the conversation ends there. Your meeting with this cutie ends there.

On the other hand, if Schoolmate remembers you and gives Cutie your name, you and Cutie have that chance of meeting again, on Twitter or whatever if he bothers to find you. From there, your paths intercept with each other, and you may or may not have a future with the cutie.

Simply said, it's fascinating how the tiniest of things have the biggest impacts on your path in life. Kind of like how, if you could ever go back in time, you shouldn't touch anything because the slightest modification in the past can change the present/future completely.

I'm not sure if you can learn anything from this post, these thoughts of mine, but it was just something I wanted to share.  Maybe you're now thinking of what little things you did that made your life like this today.