degrees of separation

it occurred to me today upon writing to someone i haven't spoken to in almost a decade that our lives and the lives of others are and forever will be intertwined, inseparable and interwoven. an encounter is never forgotten. a name, a face, a voice, these will always be remembered. however deeply we stow them away in the annals of our minds, these snippets of life will never leave us. they are our links to the world when we're lost in the depths of loneliness, they are what reminds us to feel when we become disconnected from human kind. they are what draw us to the sad, the weak, the desolate, because even in the faces of strangers we see the souls of the ones we love. 
we are forever connected, we are phone books with pages interlaced, we are million year old compressed carbon, we are super massive black holes in orbit around one another. 
pull me in, draw me nearer. we are, inevitably.