Can we be friends?

Billions of people in this world…and you left a mark

[Thoughts some people have but never say]

There are billions of people in this world, and just by living in it, we’re bound to meet hundreds, even thousands of human beings that are going to leave a mark in our lives. Some will stay for a while, some will go away after just one quick eye contact; but you will have had some intimacy with each one you cross; even if only in your mind. You probably wonder about his/her life and how it could potentially relate to yours.

I am a believer of several “movements” and “currents” of seeing the world, human relations and human intentions: degrees of separation and connections; nothing is a coincidence; everything happens the moment it needs to happen; your life clashes with someone when it has to for as long as it will...because my life has just been a series of events; one after the other that have made sense, or not, at times but in the end have led me to the life I have…

But there’s timing — You know? Sometimes people can be[come] so much more than you allow them to…, but timing is off. Your agenda is on the way, your loyalties, your plans…. Sometimes you’d like to have one passionate moment with someone, give yourself the chance of a conversation, of one dance, and maybe never see them again. Or yes [see them again]… and act normal, just be friends.

But there are norms, there’s respect, there’s rules that I just dont wish to bend. And that’s why im asking you, can we just be friends?

Even if sometimes I might see you and want more, wish for more, I don’t want to miss out on being friends or in slightly crossing paths.

I’m just afraid ill miss the chance of having you in my life. Is that selfish? I genuinely care about you… I wonder how you are doing… Where you are… What you’re doing…. Even though you haven’t been in my life too long, you’ve made such an impression. Or am I just lonely and everything intensifies? How can there be billions of people in this earth and we just get to cross paths with so few, for so little…or is it enough so that we can establish deep meaningful relations? [Sigh…]

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