Serendipity

On a campus as large as Michigan State's, it is inevitable that you'll meet people. But it is also just as likely that you'll see someone on the bus or in the caf and then never see them again. Why don't we ever wonder about that? It had to be some out-of-the-ordinary act, whatever that person did to end up at your bus stop. Did they get lost? Were they trying something new? Decide to wander, explore? Why today? Why that time? What inspired them to change their everyday lives and take a new way to their 10:20 class? What made them go back to their routine? Did they not like that bus? That stop? That caf's food? The questions will probably always go unanswered, as you'll never see them again anyway. Unless.

Unless you go out of your way. For no apparent reason, to try something new, to meet new people. We break our daily routines and we break the monotony that has subconsciously ruled our lives. What if you take the 30 bus instead of the 33? What if you eat in Landon instead of Snyder-Philips? What if you walk down Farm Lane instead of Red Cedar? What if you catch the 11:07 bus instead of the 10:59? What will you see? Will it make you laugh? Cry? Think? Who will you meet? Will you see them again? Does it even matter? Would it change your life? That's a little bit of a stretch.

But is it?

Cheers,