created 2025-03-21, & modified, =this.modified
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There is only one way to fall in love.
You must, at a time that is inconvenient to you, such as late at night stop what you are doing. Get out of your warm bed. Stop watching another film.
You must get changed and drive to the supermarket. You must wait by the cereal section. Wait for three people to come by where you are. Greet them pleasantly and warmly. Take a moment to consider their day and the path that brought you together.
It is cosmically unlikely, but possible, that someone is there just like you. They were called out of bed by this vague, arbitrary desire to connect. They said to themselves, “stop what you are doing. Get out of your bed. Stop watching another film.
You must get changed and drive to the supermarket. You must wait by the cereal section. Wait for three people to come by where you are. Greet them pleasantly and warmly. Take a moment to consider their day and the path that brought you together. ”
And so it happens, this time you see them, as you turn into the same aisle. It is obvious they are waiting there, greeting people warmly as you intended. It’s same arbitrary task in the cereal aisle. You watch them from afar suspiciously, as they conduct the motions of your task. It’s as if they are you.
Who is this person, doing what I intended to do? I only expected to find me here.
They greet one person, then another, who quickly places their cereal in their cart. With the task nearly complete, they prepare to leave and return to the regular flow of time and the deliberate tasks that consume us all—the comfort of the bed they left behind.
There is only one way to fall in love.