Six Degrees

There's always a feeling of either joy or discomfort whenever we come to know that one of our acquaintance or someone we know actually has a connection with another person we know.

The links give us the notion in some ways, that we are related. Let's put it in the context of Facebook, we have the mutual friends. Just this summer I had classmates from other colleges who happens to be of an unlikely connection to some people I know. I just said I hail from San Beda then the girl suddenly talked to me and flashed a smile saying her ex was also from the same school I came from. The other guy also knows two of my batchmates in high school and a mutual friend of my friend in Facebook. Aya is a friend of my former classmate in elementary, Lara is my church mate who also attended in the same school when I was in pre-school and her man is a close friend of my fourth year classmate, Alex was my bus mate in elementary and now we're church mates. We've recently discovered that my sister's boyfriend's aunt is the best friend of my late aunt. Then we all say the cliche: small world.

Maybe the last thing I'll know is I'm the lost heir to an oil mogul who will be granted 100% of the wealth in his last will and testament. How I wish.

That's just a knack of God's ingenuity. I'm not a fan of fate but whatever/whoever caused it, genius. Having the mere sense of interconnection is also having the sense of belongingness. Knowing someone's someone and others' others is a halfway Utopian dream. Most networking sites would fill that out in their mission statements: to grow. Being friends with as many as you can raises the stakes of having people to turn to for help or god forbid, the number of mourners attending your funeral. Your close friends friends with some of your friends is like being able to place a bunch of kittens in one box, When going out, you could invite one person and another knowing they are familiar with one another, just with the kink of one getting out of place from the group. You can have them connected but not always their interests.

For what its worth, these intertwined relationships(whether or not you are aware of it), accessorize the flow of every episode of life. The principal characters are around you but you are a dynamic protagonist and so are your antagonist and the supporting actors you will meet along the way. They are part of a large ensemble, be it on screen or behind the scenes. Anytime, anywhere, just six steps at most is any person away from the other, literally or figuratively.