If Life Were A Graph, Every Person You Meet Is A Point - Reflection by Enyjé Sandoz

 

When you think about it, each time we meet a new person, we’re unlocking a new level of consciousness—not just within ourselves, but in the overall awareness of life itself existing in yet another form.

There are over 8 billion physical manifestations of life, and each is vastly different. Much like fingerprints, no matter how similar and alike, none of us are identical in our paths. So, with each encounter, we are exposed to a new conduit of life and the path it unfolded.

With that being said, is every meeting fated then?

Because with over 8 billion paths to take, we only cross paths with a handful, and only a select few resonate and remain throughout our duration on this planet, and depending on your beliefs, for other lifetimes to come.

And if everything happens for a reason, as they say, then sometimes meeting another is just to open us to see what is out there. It’s almost like vicarious thrills as we learn about the people whose paths intersect with ours.

In fact, life itself is vicarious. 

Because if the definition of vicarious is “experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person”, isn’t that just another way of describing empathy?

And if, in fact, we live life vicariously through each person we meet, the same is true for them to us. See, now, the issue is when one seeks to become that person or fix their path to that other person’s because that disrupts the vicarious flow, the natural flow.

If you met by chance, fate, or whatever you seek to describe the experience as, then there’s no need to force… anything, really. Because what’s meant to flow will do so, and with the flow, it can go either way.

It’s kinda like a graph—two lines moving in opposite directions that happen to intersect at some point, but the lines just don’t stop there. That point is a turning point. It can determine whether or not those two lines are meant to shift into parallels, or continue on as such.

And whether the lines are now parallel or continuing in their opposite directions, some points of intersection are indelible, and may forever be something you go back and reference because its permanence was to be that—just a reference or a memory to relish, not to align.

But there are those indelible intersections that you know won’t be the last, but the key is to not focus on what’s next.

You’re just supposed to be aware that things will never be the same from that point forward.

When you think about it, each time we meet a new person, we’re unlocking a new level of consciousness—not just within ourselves, but in the overall awareness of life itself existing in yet another form.

— Enyjé (@enyjemai) September 8, 2025