Have you ever just sat on a tram and realised that each random person is living a life as vivid and complex as your own? They have ambitions, friends, a partner, people they don’t get along with, fears, routines and problems. They have a life long story that continues invisibly round you. They have connections to hundreds of other people you will never know existed. However you may appear in their life too, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, a blur of traffic passing on the high way, as a passenger on a tram sitting right next to them.

This photo freaks me out.

30 years ago, when Alex and Donna lived in different countries and long before they met and married, they were captured in the same photo at Disney World. That’s Donna at right in front. Alex is in the stroller in the background immediately behind Mr. Smee.

A random passerby could one day mean so much more than just an extra in your life. Your future husband could be sitting behind you on a tram and you would never know.