Where to start..... My in-laws ask us to attend the wedding of their friends' son, on their behalf. (I've met these friends once at a common gathering for a brief five minute introduction....thats it). In the evening, I come to know that my neighbors are also going to the same wedding from the bride's side!!! Expecting to be at a place where everyone would be a stranger (except my neighbors), I enter the marriage hall.
I feel a sense of 'deja vu'...many faces seem familiar!! I find someone whom I think I had seen on Facebook and remember the relation. I am caught in a dilemma whether I recognized him correctly....to speak to him or not??!! Finally, my anxiety gets the better of me.... I clarify with him and find that I know his wife's family and the marriage is of his wife's cousin sister. This explains the familiar sense that I have been feeling.
Having resolved my confusion to an extent, I conclude that I am still mentally sound, reassure myself that I am not hallucinating and proceed to the dinner to be surprised yet another time.
My mind's google returns the result of another known person.....I am dumbstuck!! I quickly pick up myself......she is my classmate during college days and got in touch through Whatsapp few months ago. She also happens to be the colleague of bride's father and is here. These are the series of coincidences that occurred in a matter of few hours!!
Back home, I try to join the dots that formed the sequence......in-laws, their friends, neighbors, connection with the bride's cousins, classmate..... Too much for my grey matter to handle!! I abandon the idea of connecting the random happenings as my brain is tired.....end up convincing myself in the words of my classmate....'Earth is round' and I add the extension....social media make it a fuller circle!!
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