*nth degrees of seperation*
there's something to be said of random messages from friends that testify to how much you mean to them. it's like getting to overhear conversations at your funeral, early. i guess as low-tech as it is, friendster is a pretty amazing invention. the fact that it connects you with thousand of people you don't know, just for that fraction of a chance of crossing someone you once knew.... i've had 2 totally random, totally old-school, people from my past show up this week through friendster. one, the sister of my best friend from like grade 7, and the other the son of some old family friends who live across the street from my parents. totally random. and have we got some interesting degrees of seperation! i've actually never been 'good friends' with either of these people, but by the pure virtue of them being a part of my past, they are now considered 'friends.' and there's something about getting older that makes the walls of my youth become ever fainter. i realize more and more how narrow my walls once were as parts of my youth come into focus through the lens of my present eyes, which have since seen so much more. life is pretty cool sometimes, when these folds in time happen, and you realize how much you've changed over the years, how different you are to the you 5, 10, 15 years ago... being here in hong kong seems so surreal still at times. i think about my uni days, becoming a chirstian, highschool, my friends and what we used to do, the house we used to live in, stepping foot in canada for the first time, even my first years of life in hong kong - all these different times seem like a different life, a different me. but now that things have come full circle, i'm beginning to see the reasons, and the purposes in God's plans for my life. every experience, every chapter, is there for a reason. i love it. i love how intricate my creator is. to think, he's thought of all of this in my life, and for every single person that has ever lived and everyone who ever will! jesus is so cool...
REMEMBER THESE THINGS, o jacob, for you are my servant, o israel. i have made you, you are my servant.... i am the lord, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself... ~ isaiah 44:21, 24
there's something to be said of random messages from friends that testify to how much you mean to them. it's like getting to overhear conversations at your funeral, early. i guess as low-tech as it is, friendster is a pretty amazing invention. the fact that it connects you with thousand of people you don't know, just for that fraction of a chance of crossing someone you once knew.... i've had 2 totally random, totally old-school, people from my past show up this week through friendster. one, the sister of my best friend from like grade 7, and the other the son of some old family friends who live across the street from my parents. totally random. and have we got some interesting degrees of seperation! i've actually never been 'good friends' with either of these people, but by the pure virtue of them being a part of my past, they are now considered 'friends.' and there's something about getting older that makes the walls of my youth become ever fainter. i realize more and more how narrow my walls once were as parts of my youth come into focus through the lens of my present eyes, which have since seen so much more. life is pretty cool sometimes, when these folds in time happen, and you realize how much you've changed over the years, how different you are to the you 5, 10, 15 years ago... being here in hong kong seems so surreal still at times. i think about my uni days, becoming a chirstian, highschool, my friends and what we used to do, the house we used to live in, stepping foot in canada for the first time, even my first years of life in hong kong - all these different times seem like a different life, a different me. but now that things have come full circle, i'm beginning to see the reasons, and the purposes in God's plans for my life. every experience, every chapter, is there for a reason. i love it. i love how intricate my creator is. to think, he's thought of all of this in my life, and for every single person that has ever lived and everyone who ever will! jesus is so cool...
REMEMBER THESE THINGS, o jacob, for you are my servant, o israel. i have made you, you are my servant.... i am the lord, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself... ~ isaiah 44:21, 24
posted by jana* at 1:25 AM
