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Published: Apr 12, 2013

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_{we've all heard the saying "one moment can change everything."
but you don't understand it - not entirely - until one day,
that moment happens.

- - -

have you ever looked into someones eyes
(someone you've surely never met before)
and swore, on everything that you are,
on everything that you've been and will ever be,
that you know them?

not know in the sense that you've heard of them before,
or that they remind you of some distant celebrity,
or vague fictional character.

but know.

in a greater sense, as though looking into their eyes is really more like
pulling back a velvet curtain and diving straight down into a crystalline ocean.
and not only seeing the light refracting along the movement of the waves,
but also every single organism that lies between you and the bottom of that infinite sea:
discerning each and every cell that puts them together,
until you've counted and recounted the millions - billions - of molecules that breathe them to life.
until you can feel every microscopic surge of energy as though it is pulsing through your very own veins.

then you blink and the ocean spirals away and you're left all dizzy and disoriented and gasping for air.

(like suddenly waking up from an all-too-real dream.)

- - -

these moments aren't something you see, i suppose, so much as something you feel.

that's what it's like to meet another person's soul.}