Dating : Sonder

She watches as they walk by. A couple, their laughs are intertwined with matching loose smiles. The type of smile that comes with ease. A smile with teeth and worry lines forgotten.

She watches through the windows as she drives, families curled up on couches, local news drowning on in the background.

On the streets the debate between a father and his daughter. She smiles as she watches. This girl must be the eldest daughter, there is a certain energy that comes with the job.

She smiles at the old man holding the door to the coffee house, and tells him to have a great day. She put a smile on his face that day.

There is something eerily claiming when you realize that everyone is living their own lives. They have friends, sisters, brothers, childhood bullies, bosses, therapists.

Every person lives a life that is just as entangled as yours are. But sometimes people become so entangled in their own lives they forget that there is a world full of people just living.

So she watches, and for a fleeting moment she is a part of their lives, and then it’s gone.

And She doesn’t know it yet, but she is not alone. Her tendencies to seek out life in others when hers isn’t working out the way she dreamt.

Our lives are constructed of moments, with family and friends, and complete strangers. We are much more interconnected than we’ll ever realize.