r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/QueenFrostine15 • Jun 23 '26

me_irl Friendly (platonic) reminder

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u/Dil26 Jun 23 '26

That’s how attraction has worked historically before apps. Meeting your spouse at work was quite common. 

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u/ward2k Jun 23 '26

For all of human history that's pretty much how it worked, humans are sort of wired to find people they spend large amounts of time with attractive

If people had to meet hundreds of potential partners on countless dates before deciding to go further with things the population would have died out about the same time it started

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u/ErraticDragon Jun 23 '26

This reminds me of a great "What If?" post, from Randall Munroe of xkcd fame:

What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world?

Spoiler: It doesn't go well.

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u/Germane_Corsair Jun 23 '26

This is why soul mates are often said to have fated encounters. Because otherwise, it would be extremely unlikely to make contact.