Statistics and quantum entanglement: on love
There is a .001% chance that any two people will meet in this world.
I can tell you all about it in ten steps.
1. Whether the universe is ultimately chaos or defined mathematical equations that we’ll never understand, they say two random people on this planet have a .001% chance of meeting. 2. The day I was born, three months after you, you stopped crying, and your soul has cherished mine ever since. 3. The only word that comes close is ya’aburnee, the Arabic word meaning “you bury me,” meaning please let me die first so I never have to live without you. (Please, please, let me die first so I never have to live without you.) 4. I have been through hell and back more times than I can count and I always have you waiting to bandage my wounds, because we are not forged from the same piece of iron but the same piece of something science can’t yet explain. 5. Romantics may call it soulmates. Greek philosophers may say we were split at birth, from four legs to two, spending a lifetime looking for missing piece. But the piece was never missing, because we learned to live with a mess of love where the broken edges are and to love the paint strokes that don’t fit the puzzle. 6. Because this other person, if you have one that you do not have the words to describe, they are not perfect. They cannot fix you, filling all your cracks with liquid gold and taking away your worries and fears. They will make you angry, and frightened, and sad, and they will hurt you, and you will love them. 7. It’s not magic, It’s two people who vibrate on the same wavelength, And when one strikes a chord the other cannot help but hear. 8. And the only tragic thing about this is the same reason the gods envy us: that we just have just this one lifetime with each other. 9. (Though a .001% of our meeting; who's to say we won't beat the odds again?) 10. Who knows if when we die the energy that Newton says cannot disappear will turn us into matching blades of grass together protecting ladybugs, or hurl us high, high above, holding each other close enough to close the gap in the ozone layer?
extremely beautiful
So beautiful. Thank you for sharing this, Maia.