It's A Small World After All

I find it ridiculously funny that Manhattan alone has a population of 1.6 million people, with 8.1 million in all 5 boroughs, and even with those odds you still manage to run into the same 100 people over and over again. How is it that 2 people can be in the same place, on the same day, at the same exact time? Aside from those coincidences of time and fate, the other random occurrences of 2 people having a mutual friend in common, or some other degree of separation, is equally funny. Oh, you're friend is friends with my friend? You know so and so? Me too! Your friend's friend was my friends roommate from college! And so on, and so on.

I recently made a web of a 6 degrees of separation with Crazy as the starting point. Please explain to me how 9 people got connected by a chance of series of events which only unfolded within the last 5 months. And not just 1 connection, but multiple ones that created a big circle where everyone was connected at some point. We should be a bunch of people who should not even know of each other but we do. It was totally bizarre considering most webs just end at some point. Not in my world. I get connected to people the rest of my life and my web just keeps growing and growing...

Of course, the more people you know, the bigger the circle is, but explain how out of 310 million people in the United States, and 6.93 billion people in the world, you end up with multiple mini webs. Before Facebook we had no idea who we were really connected with. But facebook tells us everything (even things we don't wish to see and know)...so and so has a birthday. So and so just became friends with so and so. X is now single, y is now engaged and the person you just became friends with has 4 mutual friends in common and you had no idea. Information overload. I'm starting to hate it. And this is coming from the person who loves knowing everything about everything. I don't like surprises. I like to be 1 step ahead of everyone and everything. Facebook helps me with that. But it also distracts me from doing anything productive and fucks with my mood.

But when do all these coincidences turn into fate?? Is everything suppose to happen when it does? When we look back on things we can see the bigger picture of what it all means. But what do all these coincidences and connections mean!? I want to know NOW! Life is so complicated...