Pondering - profound strangers in Half-baked musings

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  • Oct. 6, 2025, 9:13 p.m.
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🐾 What interaction with a stranger has most touched your life?

I'm probably going to remember lots more examples as soon as I post this, so I might come back and edit it later!

But the one that comes to mind very easily is a lady I was seated next to on a flight from Lanzarote to the UK.

She was called Vicky, she owned a villa in Lanzarote and she was getting ready to pack up her life and move to Thailand to teach under-privileged children in a local school.

It was a calling and she was fully moved into action after reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

She insisted that I find myself a copy and read it too. So I did. And even though I did not feel the seismic shift that she had felt, it has always stayed with me and I think about its meanings most days. I'm very glad I met her and was able to witness the profound effect it had had on her life.


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