"We do the same when awake as when dreaming--we invent and imagine people and then immediately forget them." - Friedrich Nietzsche

True.  We pass people, meet people in our lives that seem to have no significance whatsoever (Or to us anyway).  In this day and age someone might meet a person in a chat room and that is it.  That seems to be the closest thing to inventing a person because one usually does not see that person.  He/she can only imagine him/her.  One might notice a person while walking down the street one day and never see that person again.      Recently, I was interviewed for the Seeds bookstore at Willow Creek Community Church.  The interviewer is moving to Florida so I will most likely never see her again.  What she said to me was, "If I don't see you again, then I'll see you in heaven!"  I was stumped, trying to figure out what the signficance of our meeting was.  Will this meeting somehow impact my life forever?  Probably not.  But, hey!  It does make a great personal experience for this essay.      So, believe it or not, I agree with Nietzsche on this one.  Despite the fact that I do not believe things happen by chance.  Somehow every encounter we have with a person has something to do with something.  Even if we do not always know what or why.

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Have you ever noticed something insignificant that really made you think?  Has anything happened to you that you thought was insignificant at the time yet ended up being useful?  Please comment.