Small World ; Isn't it.

Some months back I had been enjoying reading Roger B's blog, "There's Always Something", when in response to something Roger posted about his home in Arizona, I commented about Atlanta, my home.

Roger emailed me and said "Atlanta?--- Perhaps you know several friends of mine who now live in Atlanta. I went to Vanderbilt University with them."

He mentioned 4 people that he knew in his college years at Vanderbilt. As you know the Internet is filled with probably a million interesting people like Roger, a retired minister. The odds of my knowing someone he knew over 50 years ago are what? A million to one? Atlanta is a city of close to 5 million souls now. And the odds of my happening upon Roger's blog among the thousands of blogs are also astronomical.



When I read the names I could not believe my eyes. My husband and I know all those Roger mentioned. One of the three men, was the father of my daughter's first boyfriend. The other is a distant cousin and a friend who belongs to the same golf club as my husband. The third, a woman, is a dear friend along with her husband, who is also a member of the same golf club.

Well, I emailed Roger and told him the news and he was speechless. He remembered one of them, BSH as the "prettiest girl at Vandy. She sat next to him in German class.
Roger later married a pretty coed from Kentucky.

None of these four long ago friends of Roger's are computer literate and have no idea what a blog is so I had not called and mentioned this remarkable coincidence to them. I did not quite know how to explain to them the sequence of events that had led me to Roger and his "blog." Then one day recently my husband was having lunch at the golf club with three of them and he mentioned Roger and the remarkable coincidence. They remembered him fondly and even recalled that Roger was the president of their fraternity pledge class.



I emailed Roger and told him how delighted his friends were to hear from him and they sent their best wishes across the miles and the years.

I still marvel at this turn of events.

What a small, small world we live in. We are all connected one to the other in some unexplainable, cosmic way.


(Six degrees of separation is the hypothesis that anyone on Earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances with no more than five intermediaries)

PS: click on Title above to travel to Roger's blog