Junction
Four people come to a junction, each not knowing the other three, all of them differing. He is a traveler, venturing off into other worlds. She is a healer, leaving to help others in their pain. He is an athlete, going to train for another event. She is a learner, seeking to know all she can.
Each is destined to be someplace else, in time. Each may forget who the others are, along the roads of life. Then again, they may not. Such is the way of the human mind.
However, one thing is clear. For this split instant, they are here. They will leave, but for now, they are here. They have shared this moment, and it will change their lives forever.
Perhaps, if they had not met, she would not have invented some new medical procedure that would prove to be the end of some terrible disease.
Perhaps, if they had not met, he would have gone somewhere he should never had gone to and discovered something that should never have been.
Perhaps, if they had not met, she would have never achieved her academic peak, missed a vital fact and many would suffer.
Perhaps, if they had not met, he would have done less, and it proves disastrous, both to himself and to those around him.
Perhaps… perhaps one or more of them might have lost that which makes us alive.
Perhaps.
They are leaving now, and as I watch them go, I know.
They met.