THE RED CIRCLE THEORY
"Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, drew a circle with a piece of red chalk and said: 'When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle'."
The Red Circle of Fate is a mysterious theory arising out of Buddhism. It refers to a belief in pre-determined destiny that brings together particular individuals at some specific point of their life. It is as if they stand together within this invisible circle and share a common fate.
In certain parts of the World, where they believe in Buddhism, there is a tradition of tying red thread in marriage, symbolizing this coming together of two people. But the Red Circle theory reaches beyond the boundary of meeting between mates.
There are chance meetings among strangers and there are meetings which may seem to be chance meetings initially, but turn into fateful encounters. Like the passangers in an aeroplane which suddenly meets an accident. The strangers here come to stand within the circle of Destiny and meet the same fate.
You and I, two strangers talking here today and then going away on our different paths, may be this is also pre-destined?
May be we, too, are conjoined somewhere along this invisible thread of Destiny.
As Siddhartha Goutam said, we two, with our different fates and divergent paths, may on that given day come to stand within this Red Circle of Fate.
This theory echoes a lot in Imtiaz Ali movies too- everything is written in the destiny. Two people who are meant to be always find their way. And a lot of his characters after a lot of turmoil, find a way towards each other as if they are meant to stay within an invisible red circle around them.
This thought is very poetic, less unrealistic, but at the same time so calming.
