That was in direct response to your things only happening in stories comment. I believe they happen all the time IRL, if you are open to seeing such things. There's plenty of things outside my realm of experience. One of my college friends kept me around because my inexperience in worldly things was charming. o_O
When people talk of reincarnation, I consider most of the folk I meet were in their past-lives, probably, trees. You may have grasped the fact I don't have many close friends. I'm a grumpy, charmless old man and I always have been. But I have had the instant connection feeling. I had it with Sparky before she was born, not so with Eldest or Bear. And the friends I have are one's I consider to be mine, as in the sense of Fremily, or chosen. the friends I do have are priceless.
I don't claim to *know you* for instance, but I'm very comfortable with you, and was from early on, as I was with Darroch. I think that's a LMI thing. Sometimes the fun is in the discovery and unfolding and growing into friends. And sometimes there is a jump start, and the connection is *Wham!* instant recognition and remembrance, and you just backfill on what you've been doing this time around since you last were together. It's rare, but to me, real. IMHO, anyway.
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Date: 2008-12-07 01:24 am (UTC)When people talk of reincarnation, I consider most of the folk I meet were in their past-lives, probably, trees. You may have grasped the fact I don't have many close friends. I'm a grumpy, charmless old man and I always have been. But I have had the instant connection feeling. I had it with Sparky before she was born, not so with Eldest or Bear. And the friends I have are one's I consider to be mine, as in the sense of Fremily, or chosen. the friends I do have are priceless.
I don't claim to *know you* for instance, but I'm very comfortable with you, and was from early on, as I was with Darroch. I think that's a LMI thing. Sometimes the fun is in the discovery and unfolding and growing into friends. And sometimes there is a jump start, and the connection is *Wham!* instant recognition and remembrance, and you just backfill on what you've been doing this time around since you last were together. It's rare, but to me, real. IMHO, anyway.