I woke up to a beautiful music video today.
I’ve always loved this gujarati folk song. I think it is soft, feminine, and perfectly describe the beauty of yearning in romantic dynamic.
And I’ve heard many covers of this song over the years, but what really stands out for me in this cover is the video.
This video is on the concept of “The universe will keep two people apart until the timing is right”
The story followed two characters who kept crossing paths unknowingly while reading the same book. Throughout the video, they existed in the same place, at the same time, yet never truly met. And then, at the very end, they finally did.
Just a tiny request, please watch the video before you read my saturday afternoon blues!
I love stories like that. I like believing that something soft and intentional is working in the background all the time. Also lowkey, I’ve always wanted to leave a note in a library book and have it come back to me in some unexpected romcom-ish way.
But what really stayed with me wasn’t just the romance, it was how the universe worked within the story.
Watching it with a god-eye view, I could see the bigger picture. I trusted where the story was going, and that made me feel calm. Even when most things seemed scattered across different places, I knew they were aligning exactly as they should.
Then I tried to imagine the story from the characters’ side.
They couldn’t see what I could. They were completely unaware of the fact that the universe was quietly rearranging things for them. All they knew was what they were experiencing individually at that moment.
And when you think about it, that’s life, right?
We never really know what’s happening beyond our eyesight. The only thing we truly know is our own experience.
That’s probably where I get things wrong.
I’ve realized how much of what I experience is just…mine. It took months, maybe even years, to trust that something bigger might be happening, even when I can’t see it yet.
I believe, those experiences can blind us sometimes, we may start to neglect other people’s experiences only because we haven’t felt it. And in return, we feel neglected too, because they only experienced their side of the story.
And it gets really messy and complicated until we try to find common ground to share those experiences and try to understand the bigger picture.
Though, I don’t think our job as human beings is to find the bigger picture. I think our job is simply to experience it.
The characters did exactly the same, they existed. They didn’t rush the plot or force the ending. They were just… there.
Also worth noting, The book they shared was ‘Khud Ne Ya Kyan Malyo Chu‘ by Harsh Brahmbhatt…which roughly translates to ‘I haven’t even met myself.’
I think that sums up everything.
Before we meet the right people, the right moments, or the right versions of our life, we’re always in the process of meeting ourselves.
I still find myself wondering how we’re supposed to know the right people, or the right moment?
I don’t think it’s something we can figure out in advance. We only understand it while we’re in it.
It feels more like something we move through…making choices as we go, and trusting that maybe the picture is bigger than what we can see right now.
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