You know people talk about that fact, six degrees of separation, like a chain of chains, you are technically 6 people away via contacts and friends to any person on earth, cool right?
Someone seems to have forgotten about this thing and have started a degree of separation to my likeness, cases come in everyday about how I look like someone a person knows and this has happened way too fucking often to call it a coincidence.
I mean once a while is alright but almost on a regular basis, almost every time I meet someone new after a couple of more meetings they come up with the great line
"You know, You look like xyz person"
Close to 7 billion people and I seem to be a look alike to so many people, its crazy, first time around was in class 4-5 when my Arabic teacher My Khaled, a freak who would scare the shit out of us , came up to me and said in his Egyptian accent
"Sayyed, you look like this student from ze class 8"
I replied,: "not possible sir, it cant be"
Sir: " Yez, he looks like you twin, I will call him here and show you and class"
He calls another kid and makes me stand next to him while I do have a glance at his face and he does at mine, we look nothing a like, firstly he has that afro american hair which is curly like crazy, he was thinner than me, did not wear glasses and well looked nothing like me, Sir failed, class agreed with me.
World : 0
Me : 1
The next time I came around this was when I met an uncle in Sharjah and he said I look like someone I know, hopefully this time around I would not have to stand shoulder to shoulder with another person trying to check who looks like what.
When I came back to Calcutta, thankfully this all stopped for quite a bit, basically because I took time to make a few friends and when I finally did, someone did pop up with that usual line. So this is a conversation with the ISC topper form my batch Achin Agarwal just before an assembly
Achin: "Adeem, do you have an older brother"
Me:"No man, I don't, why?"
Achin: "Coz I am sure someone came a few days back to my house and he looked exactly like you"
Me [Laughs] :" Nah man, not possible"
Achin:"You sure, coz the computer guy who came to fix my computer looked like you"
Now 2 things
I am not someone who has an older brother, well Achin would not know that but its not possible for me to have a sibling and live peacefully with that said person
Secondly, I cannot be some computer fixing guy since this is not my forte, I can rather surf porn and all I can't fix a computer for fucks sake.
So people talk about how its a small world, seeing a person after many years and by coincidence having some sort of connection with a random person makes em say that line "it's a small world", its not a small world, its a fucking huge world with a ton of people .
You just have the luck of meeting people stuck in one country and or one state, its not like we live in America and people just run off to another state or something, this is India where most of us dream of just moving from one part of the city to another and while the young kids have crap assed dreams of moving abroad and working hard as an exec or something, ending up typically being cab drivers or worse, the others are just trying to make ends meet, the world is huge, the world is large and there are 7 billion people just waiting out there to meet people up.
So get out there and stop giving me that dialogue "It's a small world"
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