Reason

Every single person we come across throughout the course of our life is sent to us for a reason, - either to give an abrupt turn to it or open our eyes to only one particular moment – doesn't matter; what matters is that it's not accidental.

This one seems to be right up my alley. Given my firm belief that nothing happens "just so", for no reason whatsoever, due to a pure coincidence, - I can only wholeheartedly agree with this lady.

Well, I'm not sure about the last part, that we necessarily learn. Probably so. Or, perhaps, people come into our life to make us better, to improve us in some way. It's still learning, though... Or, may be, people we meet are to make up for what we are really lacking at the moment? And again, it's learning too, more or less, - we get a chance to look at our life from a new angle, to understand what's missing, make conclusions (hopefully), so it all counts. Ok, another variant. People are sent to us as punishment for all our wrongs and misdeeds. It makes sense, as some people are really hideous, make our life sooo complicated, turn it into a real torture in fact! And the result? We either get corrected (honestly, that's just a blind groundless speculation, for I don't think a person's nature is something correctable - if only to the worse) or become cautious and try to avoid such pains in the neck in the future. Either way, we learn from our mistakes so get some lessons again. So, it turns out I do agree with every single word of the quote? Seems yes.

Wait, let's make things clear. We are hardly supposed to take bunches of random people we meet every day into consideration here, right? Of course right, I don't care about rude cashiers at supermarkets or clumsy passers-by pushing the little me, and am not going to waste my brain, weak and worn-out, what with drinking and rotten apples I've been consuming, on thinking about them, leave alone trying to dig out from them something that could possibly be of any use.

On a more serious note... You know, that thought – that we learn from all the people we encounter – might be a greatest consolation, especially when for this or that reason we have to part with them. You might feel, think or saysomething like "It's so damn not right! It's just unfair that people come into your life, you share some great moments together, get some common memories, and then they just disappear. But why? It mustn't be so! It's unfair!". But seems it's neither fair nor unfair, neither right nor wrong.

You are just destined to meet people during all your life, this world being a gigantic hive, various people, some of them come to stay for longish, others just bump into you on their way to somewhere else, scratch you from either inside or outside, and with both you have to part sooner or later. It often makes you feel uncomfortable. Sometimes brings heartache. Pain. Tears. Horrid and sinful ideas even. But perhaps thinking that you have acquired new knowledge and experience might help to get over these separations more easily?

P.S. That all above wasn't necessarily about "lovers" or something of the kind (*contemptuosly* :-)  - btw, what a terrible word to spell!) But... Misha. Joey. Vitya (three). Koen. Giorgos. Roman. Oleg... Shut your stupid plebeian mind, Scarecrow, and think about the eternal, if you please!

P.P.S. Speaking of reasons. There's a nice song I've loved for a long time that's got the same name. So simple a song. And so reassuring. Reassuring in that love doesn't have to be limited by all that wet and nausea-ish stuff it's so often associated with, but it can well get out of the box to everybody's advantage!)

P.P.P.S. Yes, I do love it, even is spite of the fact that he makes two grammar mistakes in his first "I'm not a perfect person, there's many things I wish I didn't do" he sings. It should be "... there are many things I wish I hadn't done", shouldn't it? You know, it's awesome to possess some knowledge of a foreign language, but at the same time it's so tiring - you can never just sit, relax and listen; you always analyse. Well, after all, you always have to pay for everyting good this life gives you, don't you?