People walk in and out of our lives every single day. Sometimes, it’s a matter of brushing up against his or her shoulder while you find an open seat on a train back home. Sometimes, they are the barista that made your daily White Chocolate Mocha that morning before your 8 AM class. Sometimes, it’s a person who is sitting two rows behind you at the lecture hall that you made a quick eye contact with as you look around for a friend.
All these connections, all these interactions, yet, how do you know that they aren't a significant part of our life? It may not be that exact moment or time, or perhaps, you may think they aren't meant to leave any sort of mark in your journey in life altogether. But how do you know what they are yet to become?
Was it a just a mere eye contact? Was it just a simple “Thank you” that you said under your breath as he or she held the elevator door for you? Was it someone who helped you pick up your Microbiology book from the ground, as you walk by him or her, accidentally dropping your things as you rush into your next class that’ll start in 10 minutes?
Sometimes, people come to our lives when we least expect it. It’s crazy because sometimes, it’ll just dawn to us that they will play a bigger role than someone catching the same train home or someone who works part time at Starbucks. It always seems to be more than that. There appears to have a bigger picture we have yet to discover.
At times, people come to our lives and we know right away they are meant to be there. They serve a great purpose to our existence. They help us grow and flourish into the very person we are here today, and to the person we are yet to be. They are the reminders of how beautiful and amazing life is, just as they are the reminders that inevitable challenges and difficulties are possible to overcome.
They help us identify the person we want to be and shape us into the person we want to become. They help us remember how strong our hearts are by being the same people who continually cultivate it with love and make it resilient by breaking it and mending it.
Without them and the tests they have presented to us, our life leads us straight to a smoothly surfaced road with no roadblocks and obstructions, harmless and comfortable, yet we fail to learn our lessons along the way.
People walk in and out of our lives every single day. Sometimes, it’s a matter of saying, “Excuse Me”, as we sneeze and hear a “Bless you” from a complete stranger. Sometimes, the connections could happen in between those “Peace be with you” at church on Sunday. There’s really no way of telling that these people would leave footprints in our life or not. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t.
However, with the ones that do, we need to make everyday count. We need to be grateful and appreciative of every given minute and second we have with them because we may never get that chance again. If it’s regretful having a missed connection with a stranger, it’s even more unfortunate and heartbreaking to break a relationship with someone close to you.
Don’t be afraid to fall in love. Don’t be afraid to let down your guard. Don’t be afraid to let people in. People are meant to walk in and out of our lives, might as well leave them with something to remember us by. Give them something amazing. Give them something real.
Remember, tomorrow is never promised. Don’t let your chance slip away.
