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A Drop Of Fate

I was walking home in the rain earlier with dog walkers, joggers and children passing me at their own pace, in no hurry to get under shelter. It was clear that nobody here was afraid of a little English weather. Rain droplets were lightly pattering against my face and hands, not hard, but soft and gently. It was a pleasant sensation, like a sort of facial massage. A few droplets accumulated at the tip of my nose to form a larger droplet and as I puffed a bit of air from my mouth upwards, it shot off my nose, flew through the air and landed on the ground where all the other rain droplets were heading. This then started my thought process.

What if rain droplets are a link to the people that we are going to meet in our life? Each droplet could be linked to a different person in the world somewhere that we are going to cross paths with. It could only be for a second as we pass them in the street and exchange a glance or someone that could stay in our lives for a long time and perhaps become a lifelong companion. Of course, this could only apply to the droplets that we allow to absorb into our skin and not the droplets that we shake and blow off of us or the ones that simply roll over the surface of our skin before falling to the ground. The droplets that fall straight to the ground and don’t land on people are just evaporated and have another attempt later down the line.

You can’t see anything in the droplets because they enter your body empty and once they are absorbed into you, they are there as cases for you to fill with and keep safe the memories of this person. You can’t feel them or see them but they are there; a direct link between you and another person. They could change your future and decide your fate even.

This being said, I wonder who I’ve just blown away and allowed to drop to the level of nonexistence in my life with one huff of air. I hope it wasn’t somebody that could have been important to me or somebody that I’ve always wanted to meet. Well, I guess I’ll never know.