Maybe the Red String Doesn’t Mean Forever
They say an invisible red string connects those who are meant to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. It might stretch, tangle, or get caught in storms, but it will never break. At first, I thought this was just a romantic notion—something meant for lovers in stories or dreamy quotes shared on lonely nights. But for a while,I had a conversation about it, and somehow, I was enlightened. I realized the red string doesn’t just belong to people who fall in love. Sometimes, it binds souls meant to walk together through the chaos of life—as friends, as family we choose, as anchors we never saw coming. Life doesn’t give you a map to the people you’re meant to keep. Sometimes, you stumble into them without realizing the universe just shifted a little to make space for something sacred. Sometimes, you meet someone on an ordinary day, in the most unremarkable way, and only later realize it was the start of a chapter you’d never want to end. ...