It's a small world....

Before you think nooooo please don't get that song embedded in my head for the next hour, I am not about to sing you the "It's a small world" Disney ride tune (though I bet it's playing in your head now anyway, it is in mine, damn it!). I am however going to tell you a short story that lead to me writing this post (You can see an even shorter version on the Project 365 page).

I started working for my company a couple of years ago and my friend and colleague (boss) often talks about her group of girlies, naturally. I thought nothing of it other than that she was telling me about what they had done at the weekend or plans they were making. After some time, I noticed that one of her friends had some other mutual friends of mine. They turned out to be two of my great uncles. Usually I'm quite a good detective and I love to delve and solve things, but on this occasion I sort of just shrugged it off.

Later on, another great uncle of mine had visited from Australia where he now lives and a relative had put a note on Facebook to say how nice it was to see him and some other relatives who had been there. One of these people was my friends friend. By now I'm thinking that this a little weird, so I asked one of my great uncles who told me that in fact this lady was my third cousin, or my Mum's cousins daughter, meaning that our grandparents are brother and sister.

You might wonder how we had never met before, or even knew that each other existed, but when your grandparents are one of ten siblings you can imagine how easily a family spreads to all corners of the country and even the world. We did however meet last weekend at my friends birthday and we talked who's who in the family, who we are regularly in contact with etc, which was really lovely.

A major point of this story is that you never know who you are going to meet and who you are going to meet people through. If it wasn't for my friend, I may never have met my third cousin, and that would have been a real shame.