The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows API

Entry 64

moment of tangency

noun

A glimpse of what might have been

From the video

You and I have never met, many times before. Our paths might have crossed once or twice online, or passing in the street. We might've lived in the same neighborhood all our lives, but against incredible odds, we just happened to miss each other. It's a big world, after all
You never know how many things had to happen exactly right for you to meet the one you love, You never know how easily fate might have tipped you onto some other course, meeting some other person, who would feel like a soulmate. Maybe you'd still be telling your friends it was always meant to be as if you knew all along that your paths would cross. Or maybe you'd look back at your life and realize: it was nothing personal-it's all just a coincidence. You never know.

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