A few days back I wrote a post called "And I loved him." In it I mentioned that when I saw a man a block away, I "knew" that he was one of those people who would come into my life and alter it forever.
Smiles... I don't know why or how these folks find me, why or how I "know" them, but I am certain there is an explanation. Perhaps they are part of a BIG PICTURE that I cannot, nor ever will fathom.
I hear that in this universe, once any particle comes into contact with another particle, that these two particles will continue to affect each other forever, no matter how distant in time or space. I always like to muse over this phenomenon. And I like to believe this peculiar law of physics also applies to people. Maybe the ones we "know", the ones that shine and pull us towards them and into their lives, are ancient attractors whose purpose is known only to the cosmos.
In "Cat's Cradle" Kurt Vonnegut wrote of a world in which groups of people "do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing"... Such a group is called "karass". In this world, humanity is organized into many such teams... Vonnegut says. "If you find your life tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons that person may be a member of your karass...Likes and dislikes have nothing to do with it."
Too, he says that while one can try to discover "the limits of [one's] karass and the nature of the work God Almighty has had it do... such investigations are bound to be incomplete."
Smiles...Think about this line from the novel though: "Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god." ( Isn't that a SUBLIME concept?!!! )
Footnote: There are also granfalloons. A granfalloon is "a false karass, ... a seeming team that [is] meaningless in terms of the ways God gets things done." Examples of granfalloons that Vonnegut provided were "the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of Odd Fellows -- and any nation, anytime, anywhere."
And oh! I cannot wrap this up without mentioning "wrang-wrangs". A wrang-wrang is "a person who steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing that line, with the example of the wrang-wrang's own life, to an absurdity. Bet you know a couple of these folks.
~~~Light Opera~~~
