What you said at the end there resonates. Some storylines seem so important while they’re happening, but time gives a different perspective. Sometimes the thought invokes nostalgia, but I’m usually grateful that things have worked out how they have. Thanks for sharing, Nicholas (:

@@NoProtocol So so true. I had two best friends growing up together since primary school. I haven't spoke with them for about 6 or 7 years, and we still live literally 10 mins from each other. Sometimes life gets in the way more than the distance.

how often do you reminisce about the people you've never met before ? even when your parents are gone long enough, you will often remember them when you think about how you've forgotten them,.... people you've known are still part of your life, you just don't notice because they aren't omnipresent in your mind till you remember you forgot them its the same essence as hope, just because you aren't aware of its existence, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist... the sun is still shining above the clouds, or when its blocked out by the earth or the moon...

I think "sad and liberating at the same time" is meant to be a part of the human condition. As a species, we're wired for a world in which we have relatively small social circles, with a fairly high rate of "turnover" in them (by changing places, changing schools, new people coming, old people dying, etc.). You're close to people for a certain time in a certain place, and then life moves on; only a small handful are there all along the journey. I have a real worry about possible unintended and unanticipated consequences of social media because of this. For example, I'm in my early 50s, and I'm friends on Facebook with about 75-100 people that I went to high school with 35 years ago. Not all of them are very active on the site, but i keep up at least a bit on their lives that way. But how many of those people would I *_actually_* still be in touch with if Facebook didn't exist? Probably no more than 10 or so, and most of those are people I only see occasionally (perhaps once or twice a year). Even though I already lost touch with most of those high school acquaintances before the rise of Facebook (not having spoken to most of them since high school or shortly thereafter), now it would seem weird to lose touch with all of those former classmates if Facebook suddenly went away. But of course, that's all an illusion; I'm not really "in touch" with them. Anyway, the point of all this rambling is just that I'm not sure humans are really meant to have social circles of hundreds or thousands of people that stay mostly intact through their entire lives. Natural relationships are a lot more context-driven. I wonder what the long-term ramifications will be of us messing around with that...

the way humanity works, humans are not ready for that truth, humans have a hard time letting it go, maybe they're afraid of loosing that good thing and thinking they wont find something as good to hang on, whithout realzing they already did let go, they're doing it, and they will still be doing in the future. i've often been in that end where people let go of me without realizing, when i was not so ready to let go of them. it is not a confortable position, anyways hahahahha thats not my supervillain story hahahaha i've learn that these thing happens and i also did it to a lot of people. today i'm particrlarly good with the "let go" part, not like stuff that happened wasnt good or memorable, its just gone. with this new position i get antagonized, like i dont care or i'm not trust worthy humans are not ready

I passed within a 100 yards of my future wife when we were 9, even though we lived in different states.

now a days you can have cellphones track your daily movements with stuff like google maps timeline... as long as your cellphone is charged and gets location data for most of your life then people could potentially make a site that gets both parties data and give a list of how close they have come to meeting each other in the past before they actually met each other.... also facebook and other social media sharing sites could build the timeline for time before being old enough for a cell phone... or extrapolating from your parents phone timelines for the 0 to x years anyways this will probably at some point make things like these near encounters a lot more common with the more accurate timelines that are not completely reliant on our failing brains

It shows you what you watch most and related content. Wanna see other things, start searching for other things.

@@rocalvo6588 What are you taking about?

Yes, and while we're still alive, we can prevent confusion by at least stating our wishes for our social media accounts.

Born in 71. lost of interesting changes through the years. Happened to be in Track in the 80s when the distances were changed from yards to meters.

I think I’ve read a viral story like this once but have never experienced it for myself! Would love to find someone I know in the background of my family photos

Stand Up Maths talked about this happening in their video about probability. I think Matt (Stand Up Maths guy) talked about it in his book, Humble Pi.

That actually happened to me & my wife .. we figure out some years later that we had met on a Basketball Court as teenagers

@@NoProtocol Yeah, all sounds great until you start noticing that's the same person on EVERY PHOTO.......

6 degrees of separation

I'm certain the probability of you, me and whoever reads this being here is in the 0.0000000000000%.

Also we're not the only human species. It's just that other humans have gone extinct like the neanderthals.

@@ub-4630 It was definitely a mad dash to see who would come out on top. Really cool to think about.

Or, we are in a simulation and chose to be here.

the alternative being immortality? i guess that would get boring and lonely

What’d she say?

I love the way children mind works, they're constantly learning and the question simple pops up and more often than not its realy deep, questions that've been puzzling humanity for as long as we exist, and one question remains how such little brain still foming its connection came to it

@@NoProtocol just “oh” with a look on her face that said she ain’t buying it

oh wait i havent been following. i thought they said that Queen Elizabeth was gonna be the last monarch since it was just a symbolic title and they were gonna switch to a democracy officially since thats basically how its been for awhile now. did that change? or did i completely misinterpret everything?

@@Jzombi301 You misinterpreted everything. There was never any serious consideration about ending the monarchy. Technically it's not just a symbolic title. It functions like it's symbolic but as far as the law is written the crown still has all the power, it's just that they'd probably lose that power if they ever tried to use it because the British public sure as hell wouldn't stand for it. Even now there are those in the UK who want an end to the Monarchy, but they are not the majority.

I mean, with those fingers, I doubt he has been on the Internet either

The last one is top

@@NoProtocol Related to that, have you heard of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect (thought of by Michael Crichton)?

Tall people problems.

This is a bit of butterfly effect as well

whats crazy about coincidences like this is that statistically its very probable that something will eventually happen to someone but if you isolate a specific event and look at the peope involved, it becomes statistically extremely unlikely. its just the same when you think about the infinite universe theory or the multiverse theory. given enough time, anything can, and will happen, and they can, and will repeat themelves in the exact same way or very slightly different ways its also the same with how life on earth was created. there is no way that it happened perfectly the first time. there had to have been many times where life failed to take hold. but given the right circumstances, life is an inevitability

Or I just have a hoodie from that city.. but yes, I hope everyone there is safe! Happy New Years (:

Happy New Year Thomas!

I could argue with you all day, but every room is not room temperature, room temperature is 22 celcius if I remember correctly.

@@Ninjadoku3779 every room, in and of itself, is room temp because it is the temp of that particular room. Rooms vary, temps vary. So, despite the common consensus of 22C (I believe you're right, btw), each individual room has it's own temp, and it is the room temp of that room.

@@McKavian I know what you mean 100%, but english is dumb, and its wordplay. Like how "Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo." is a legitimate sentence. (I prob got the amount of buffalos wrong).

@@Ninjadoku3779 English is a thief that waits in dark allies, waiting for other languages to mug, and rifle their pockets for spare verbs.

A better one would be, why is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (the fear of long words) such a long word. :)

theres a famous photo that has a very similar backstory. two people, a man and a woman, decided on the same day to take a picture of themselves in front of a red sculpture in Qingdao, China. the woman’s photo had the man in the background. 11 years later they met. over a year later they got married and after 5 years of their marriage they realized he was in her photo.

I agree with you, but I think the point was made from another perspective, probably something along the lines of: 'Where are you during sleep, if you're not dreaming? You close your eyes and wake up a few hours later. A lot has/ might've happened during that time, but for you it felt like an instant. I didn't sort my memories myself, nor did I repair my body myself. I was "nowhere" (death) during my dreamless sleep.'

@@plausibleparadox3191 It's moreso that we mostly don't remember we have been dreaming. The brain is working, but subconsciously. We are also moving to adjust our position and so on. In the past, death has been referred to as the brother of sleep, but it is an antiquated, overly simplistic view.

That’s a lovely explanation of what happens in our sleep. Yet, none of all that registers to us in a conscious way. You can wake up after a ten year old coma and feel you just went to bed yesterday.

@@noelnegele6039 Depends. Comatose patients can often hear (and remember hearing) the voices of loved ones.

This is a good way to put it!

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Wherefore art thou

you need to find better shows to watch my guy. They’re out there

I thought that some episodes of Sienfeld had a laugh track, for example episodes filmed outside of studio. Great show that I just watched for the first time a few years ago after getting very into Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm”!

@@NoProtocol Sienfeld does have episodes where they use a laugh track.

I think he meant that everything destructive preceded the eye. Trails it too.

I’ve never read anything about it! I’ll have to look into this. Also, have never seen the Matrix but it’s referenced so often that I think it’s finally time

@@NoProtocol I think you would enjoy all three of them. The concept is cool too.

I’m liking it so far as well