Day 1 contd:

I call someone an angel, I am drawing parallels between the angel and the person. And if I am not pulling the person's leg by calling her an angel, it means that I see certain properties of an angel in her. In other words, I see something that associates her with the image that I have of an angel.If 'parallel' lines never meet, why does 'parallels' mean finding connections and similarities between things?Is it because things that are parallel never meet - but are always together?Indeed.Things and people who unite, like lines that intersect, have to move apart as they move further.However, there is something unparalleled that keeps these parallels with each other...