On the Tree
I read this article today about how people don't necessarily have six degrees of seperation between them. It said the possibility of knowing someone who might know someone you know is probably after you pass the 97th person. All these figures come from months of research.
Well, maybe they are right. But I wish I could ask them to live where I do, a thriving metropolis, and they'll realise like me, that we're not connected by six degrees of seperation, but by one. In such a big city, everyone seems to know everyone else. It is very easy to get your info on someone if you have your sources well spaced out.
A colleague of mine not only knows everything about the man I've been in love with. He also knows my ex bf. Makes me feel exposed, naked, so predictable. Half the people I know, somehow know the other half I know. It's freaky and strange. Wherever you go, you're bound to bump into someone you happen to know, without your knowing. Which as its flipside also means that someone I know is sharing personal details about me with someone else I know. Serves me right. This is exactly what I've been doing.
We all stem from the same ancestral tribe from aeons ago. We don't live in that village anymore, but we live in a global village. Someone once suggested we are all cherries on a tree. I completely vouch by that logic now. We may be on different branches, sitting in different directions, but we are all connected anyways.
So much for research. Better luck next time guys. If you need logistics, come to me.
I read this article today about how people don't necessarily have six degrees of seperation between them. It said the possibility of knowing someone who might know someone you know is probably after you pass the 97th person. All these figures come from months of research.
Well, maybe they are right. But I wish I could ask them to live where I do, a thriving metropolis, and they'll realise like me, that we're not connected by six degrees of seperation, but by one. In such a big city, everyone seems to know everyone else. It is very easy to get your info on someone if you have your sources well spaced out.
A colleague of mine not only knows everything about the man I've been in love with. He also knows my ex bf. Makes me feel exposed, naked, so predictable. Half the people I know, somehow know the other half I know. It's freaky and strange. Wherever you go, you're bound to bump into someone you happen to know, without your knowing. Which as its flipside also means that someone I know is sharing personal details about me with someone else I know. Serves me right. This is exactly what I've been doing.
We all stem from the same ancestral tribe from aeons ago. We don't live in that village anymore, but we live in a global village. Someone once suggested we are all cherries on a tree. I completely vouch by that logic now. We may be on different branches, sitting in different directions, but we are all connected anyways.
So much for research. Better luck next time guys. If you need logistics, come to me.
Comments
It is surprising, is nt it? The research and the "six" degrees of seperation.?