small world

i'm packing up right now for a week-long trip with the tripod (bff, SIL, and myself -- and yes, that's really a reference to 'the girl next door').

today i found out that our beach house is 7 blocks from my coworker's who is down there right now.  what are the odds that we'd be traveling to the same place (7-8 hours away from home) and overlap our vacations during the same time (especially within the same week)? 

last weekend, my SIL remarked about what a small world it is, like the whole '6 degrees of separation' idea.  there have been plenty of times where i'll be talking to a friend and we'll find someone we know in common.

during my sister's bachelorette party, my sister's fiance's sister (is there any other way to refer to her?) had 2 people acknowledge her on a street corner within a span of a few minutes.  it seemed totally random and funny, but really, what are the chances she'd run into acquaintances in the middle of a crosswalk, while hailing a cab mid-afternoon?

sometimes i wonder what my people network would look like.  i suppose it would resemble my social media map, where you can pinpoint your mutual friends and wonder how the heck they could possibly know each other.  but that is limited to whoever joins the site.  i bet that if i really put my mind to it, i could probably find a link between all my relationships, across family ties or countries or cultures or jobs or hobbies.

each day, we are all touching someone, making the world seem alittle smaller, but enriching our lives in a much bigger way.