Two people cannot look for each other...

So over the last week i have come to a bit of an odd realisation. It started on a shopping trip over to Queenstown with a friend, ending up in the Warehouse store. We both disappeared off in different directions to get the things we each needed, but this store is huge. I lost Mel and walked around for nearly 20mins looking for her. She, having lost me, did the same. The whole time i was looking for her, she was looking for me. I walked clockwise round the store, went out to the car, sat on a bench by the door, then went hunting again. All this time, Mel was doing the same, even going anti clockwise round the store incase we were following each other. Eventually she stopped and waited for me to arrive. Only then did we find each other.

Two days ago, a friend in town vanished after a night out, and we spent until 2pm the next day looking for her. She was also looking for us this whole time. Again, only when we stopped and took stock of the situation, knowing that she knew where we worked and where we lived, she would come to us so it was now my turn to wait to be found.

This is it, this is what i realsied. Two people cannot look for each other, one of you must be found, the other must doing the finding, else you run around in circles, endlessly hunting for something that is geographically mobile. This fits so many things in life, and i believe that if you are searching for something static, then be active, get going and go find it. If however, what you are searching for is mobile, is impossible to place, then breathe, take a step back and see if it can find you. Invariably this world will provide just what you want, just when you need it.

If you don't believe this, have some faith and give it a go...