The random on the bus eyeing you down, the chick on the street wearing the shirt with your favourite band's logo, the cute guy you meet at a party while drunk. Missed connections are everywhere, and they happen so often we usually don't even notice them anymore. It seems like a romanticist ideal to allow these to stay missed, in the same sense that it is a vegetarian ideal for the concept behind eating animals not to exist.
How different are they from normal introduced connections? Not very. Everyone is a stranger to all at some point, why do we shy away from some situations and flock to others? For instance, most of us make friends in school when we are kids and share all our classes with the same people. We see them everyday, we interact with them everyday, yet there was still a point when we didn't know them at all. In the situation of a usual missed connection, however, there is a fleeting moment of connecting with another human being, yet we can never gather the courage or spare the time to keep this connection going. Is it really the repetition that makes the difference between a simple missed connection and a friend? Is it sheer convenience of knowing that you will see your friend at school, yet that cute guy you met the other day could live half way around the world?
Regardless of the fact that these strangers could just be best friends you haven't met yet, it seems the most romantic connections are the ones that never happened.
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