Strangers.

So I went to starbucks today, and while in line I turned around to see this girl. She looked at me, I smiled, and turned back around.

Suddenly I find myself wondering if this girl realized that our lives have crossed paths. We're complete strangers and I could've lived my life perfectly without standing in front of her in line...I think.

So maybe she's at starbucks because she slept late last night, and needed a coffee to wake her up. Well, what if she slept early last night? Then she would've never seen me. What if there was more to it than that, what if her computer hadn't lost battery and deleted her report that she stayed up all night doing? Then she would've had a perfect night's sleep and never seen me at starbucks. What if she hadn't been distracted by a tv show and remembered to charge her laptop?

There could've been so many ways she could have avoided seeing me at starbucks, yet she did. I wonder what she saw when she looked at me. Is it the same thing I see in the mirror?

When I was younger, I wished that I had an endless stack of post its that say "claudine was here" and I would just stick them wherever I went. Then I could come back and say that 5 years ago I was standing right here.