Looking at a map of the world or just hearing about all the multiple countries there are, the world seems huge. It has a total of 195 countries, 7 continents, and around 7,604,935,626 people, as of right now. And most people can only dream of being able to go to all the beautiful places there are. But if we ignore it’s size and the amount of people there is, we could see how it’s not actually as big as we thought and how connected we are with people from all around it.

As I’ve said before in my bio and on another article, I was born in Venezuela, which means that all my childhood friends and family are from there—some are still living there and some have move just like I did—but then I moved to Miami, FL, where some of my friends and family live and now another part of my friend are in Indiana. I always thought of the world as this huge and never ending thing, until I realize how many people from all around the world I have met and interacted with in my life from moving and traveling. I have friends in Venezuela, Spain, Italy, Ecuador, Panama, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, as well as in different states in the U.S.—Florida, California, Texas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, and New York. And it will surprises you how some of these people can be connected.

I’m sure it has happened to more than one of you, just like it has happened to me that you meet someone and that person some how knows someone you know. Personally, I have had this experience happen to me multiple times, very unexpectedly. Once, I want to my best friends 15th birthday party in Miami with my parents (is equivalent to the Sweet Sixteens here in America for Hispanics) and the doctor that had taking care of a numerous amount of injuries for years back in Venezuela was a very close family friend of here and was at the same party and recognized my parents. Another time, I discovered that a girl I went to school with in Miami was going to the same wedding my family was attending because her aunt was the one getting married, but I was invited by the groom who was a family friend in Venezuela. What are the odds, right.

These are things that happen in many different occasions and with different people that make us say “what a small world” and show us how the world is smaller and more connected than we realize. Plus, with the internet and the amount of connections we make in our life, it will just continue to get smaller and smaller. Showing us how it’s not such a big world after all.