and I have also made a handful of friends in my 2.5 years on Medium that I suspect will be lasting--other relationships here have come and gone but some are deep. Some have moved off platform to email and texting apps and some have moved to telephone. All of these are platonic.

I wrote a piece, https://medium.com/channspirations/synchronicity-of-familiarity-across-the-diaspora-a640c7eccab5, that contains "I imagine that to affect each other’s past lifecycles and life lessons we had to spark matter into lives within roughly the same geographic community, and we had to physically meet to recognize the energy signatures of our kindred spirits and soulmates. In the internet age, our soul groups get to experience and share with each other multiple cultures and distinctly different topographies due to the advent of social media, of which Medium is such a platform."