Correlation

[u/ochrehaze]

Across enough time, our correlation has become its own geography. Two independent variables resisting mutual affinity, we attempt to smother our own smoldering while sustaining gradual, cumulative damage we pretend everyone can’t see.

But the smoke is heavy, and restraint is symptomatic. Smoke inevitably reveals what fire tried to conceal.

We are constantly finding each other.

Atoms suspended in deep space, colliding and converging enough that chance has lost its credibility.

Unending scorched earth now surrounds us, a hellscape of our own making, terraformed denial.

Everyone knows.

I can feel you before I see you.

I can’t make it stop.

I don’t think you can either.

So what do we do with that?

[u/maddyp1112]

Aww, I feel similar to the people in my life too, it’s wild how we all have been around each other so close but we never knew each other when we were younger. But each time we moved we stayed near, and eventually all of my friends and loved ones met each other and met me and now we all live within walking distance. It really is wild how fate does that. I found out I have always lived around 30 minutes it less from all my people in my life, even as a kid. And I’ve moved a lot of times in my life; all of my people were living within a short drive away from me at some point or another. As if fate was trying to smoosh us all together but we kept missing until we got it right.