By: Gabriela Yareliz
The world is small. Sometimes, it’s interesting to think of time overlaps. This is bound to happen in the randomness of life and also, in its mysterious synergies. These are moments where you and another person are in the same place but you don’t know each other then. For example, the moments you walked past your spouse before you knew each other. Who knows how many times you wandered around the same circles and places.
There are also moments where you brush past someone you won’t know later, intimately, but someone who you will later see in the news.
The other day, I heard something about a woman who had taken a train with a guy who later was arrested for some murders. They made small talk, and he said some weird stuff to her. “A brush with true evil,” the podcast host called it.
Candace Owens just dropped an installment of The Epstein Files, part of her reporting is a summary of investigations that have taken years for Xavier Poussard. A lot of it confirms stuff many of us curious ones have put together about Robert Maxwell (Ghislaine Maxwell’s father), The Mirror pension fraud, etc. It is definitely the most condensed version of the facts I have heard so far, so check it out if of interest.
But where I am going with this is— imagine sharing space with these people back in the day in mundane settings. A bank encounter, a walk past each other on a NYC sidewalk, maybe they open the door for you or vice versa, maybe you make eye contact or share a smile… There are so many weird moments in life where we brush past or even converse with a stranger who has a story that is larger than anything we could imagine. They are brief moments from which we emerge unscathed.
There are moments where we have brushes with evil in the everyday scene. This is your reminder to pray every time you leave your house. You just never know who might be sitting next to you. Life is interesting like that.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 