sean's theory
"With so many things woven together, who knows what will happen when the threads meet."

That was my Graduation quote.

Is Empathy just another way of the threads connecting us? I'm not talking about knowing how someone feels because you've been through a similar experiance, but rather feeling the same way, in the same time frame, while not being physically close to them. Such as the commonly documented cases among twins, where one twin is injured and the other feels pain as well. Are some threads thicker than others? Are we connected to some people in a more natural and deeper way?

Keeping in mind, im talking about the atomic connection, not just an emotional connection

I have felt connected to an individual in this way for some time now, and after reading this essay, i feel i have an understanding of why i feel the way i do sometimes. i know (after casual conversation) that the individual has bouts of the same feelings around the same times i do. Are we connected in a much deeper way than originally thought? Are my feelings about this person cosmicaly validated?
We have so many parallels and tandems running in our respective lives. Scientists believe that coincidences are anomalies, and therefor, everything that happens is because of cause and effect, and thus, has significance in understanding why things are the way they are.
It makes sence, that if some people are connected in the way that i describe, that twins would be among the most talked about examples of the empathy i talk about. Secret languages, cases of feeling pain, those are both connections that the average person hasn't experienced much.
So, it could be argued that, using the theories, some people are more predisposed to being "connected", that some are drawn to each other on a subatomic level.
Could these people be our "soulmates"? If not our soulmates, then lifelong friends, the people we cherish and hold most dear to us. The people who understand and "get" us. If this is the case, then one would have to believe that we are preassigned to meeting certain people in our lives, since we are so connected with the strongest of threads. Then, is that fate, or just the universe darning the fabric of space?

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