It’s a small world…
Life has a way of showing us just how closely knit we are wherever we are. Whether at a doctor’s office, chatting on a phone, or watching a holiday movie, similar experiences are threaded together everywhere.
In one week life can shift, you can go from sharing messages for a new friend’s child that is in the hospital where I am receiving messages from their loved ones in spirit to that of a message understood from the perspective of tooth sensitivity helps family members comprehend what the child is experiencing to a week later the tooth shifting from a message for them to an urgent message for yourself requiring two dental appointments: one with your dentist and one with an endodontist all within two days and three days before you are two leave on a trip.
Then a family friend calls, and the world gets a lot smaller as she must have the same procedure done, her dentist’s office is the same as my mom's only with one exception, it is in Oregon, and all three of us have the same dental insurance. Both the family friend and I have similar histories with dentists and teeth. And the world can get a little smaller when I walked into a doctor’s office and ran into a client. We discover more threads just linked in slightly different ways.
Fast forward to a holiday movie this one centered around Hanukkah and its traditional foods and prayers after attending a weekend ceremony sharing the history of the lighting of the lights, taking part in the speaking of Hebrew prayers, and singing a traditional song. People of all faiths coming together to celebrate each other’s traditions.
It’s a small world. Learning a technician’s birthday is the same as mine. And the other technician grew up in the small Pennsylvania town of Portage as did my mother. While at a doctor’s appointment in support of my mom, the doctor who offered her surgeon guidance lives in my mom’s complex and he would occasionally step in to assist on a difficult surgery.
The connections are closer than you think, and you do not have to look far to see just how everyone’s lives are intertwined with one small element at a time whether through a location, a date, a career, a song, a tradition, or even a phone call. We are not as alone as we may believe for it is a small, small world. It’s a small world…
Life has a way of showing us just how closely knit we are wherever we are. Whether at a doctor’s office, chatting on a phone, or watching a holiday movie, similar experiences are threaded together everywhere.
In one week life can shift, you can go from sharing messages for a new friend’s child that is in the hospital where I am receiving messages from their loved ones in spirit to that of a message understood from the perspective of tooth sensitivity helps family members comprehend what the child is experiencing to a week later the tooth shifting from a message for them to an urgent message for yourself requiring two dental appointments: one with your dentist and one with an endodontist all within two days and three days before you are two leave on a trip.
Then a family friend calls, and the world gets a lot smaller as she must have the same procedure done, her dentist’s office is the same as my mom's only with one exception, it is in Oregon, and all three of us have the same dental insurance. Both the family friend and I have similar histories with dentists and teeth. And the world can get a little smaller when I walked into a doctor’s office and ran into a client. We discover more threads just linked in slightly different ways.
Fast forward to a holiday movie this one centered around Hanukkah and its traditional foods and prayers after attending a weekend ceremony sharing the history of the lighting of the lights, taking part in the speaking of Hebrew prayers, and singing a traditional song. People of all faiths coming together to celebrate each other’s traditions.
It’s a small world. Learning a technician’s birthday is the same as mine. And the other technician grew up in the small Pennsylvania town of Portage as did my mother. While at a doctor’s appointment in support of my mom, the doctor who offered her surgeon guidance lives in my mom’s complex and he would occasionally step in to assist on a difficult surgery.
The connections are closer than you think, and you do not have to look far to see just how everyone’s lives are intertwined with one small element at a time whether through a location, a date, a career, a song, a tradition, or even a phone call. We are not as alone as we may believe for it is a small, small world.
