A World So Small

Was back in my hometown, attending a hen party of my cousin who's getting married. Well, not exactly hen party as people at the party included all of my cousin's relatives and her girlfriends.

Amidst the crowd, I had spotted a lady whom I found familiar; she looked like one of the people whom I've spotted in the lecture theatre during my undergraduate days in Chemistry lectures. Boy, was I right when my cousin introduced us!

I am an immediate cousin of the bride-to-be on her father's side and I found out that this lady is also an immediate cousin of the bride-to-be on her mother's side! Amazingly, 2 strangers had actually sat in the same lecture for 3 years without knowing that they were distantly related as in this case.

Come to think of it, I wonder how many of such distant relatives do I have whom I'm not even aware of and yet has appeared as passers-by in my life???