I felt calm, suddenly. A peaceful feeling passed through me. Not from him. From within myself. It was that feeling that I belonged here, in the right place at the right time. I hadn’t evolved enough at that point in my life to even consider the deep philosophical questions I’d soon be discussing with him—the third eye, the migration of souls, the great spiral staircase we climb up and down—so I didn’t question the feeling then, but these days, when I revisit that moment in my heart, I feel this reassuring ping. Oh, it’s you! Here you are. It comforts me to think that I’ll feel it again in
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