One Point Compactification.!?

I was in Chidambaram last week. This place is 240 Km’s from Chennai, further down south in Tamil Nadu. I was there for a 4 day visit. Had to go through an orientation about a land rig.
Passing through Chennai reminded me of the time I had spent there till four months back. Back then, I was deeply unimpressed by the job and the place and I had to move on. North Indians don't like Chennai because there are not too many places to hang around, and due to different local language, they can not talk easily with people. These are not the reasons why I disliked it, though. (And no, I am not trying to be politically correct here).

While in Mumbai, I am put up in Jogeshwari. My office is in Mhape. It takes ~2 hours of road journey either way. I take this road that goes right in front of IIT Powai. Reminds me so strongly of the summer 2005, I was staying here doing my so called internship. Again, my office was 2 hours ride from here. Things have changed over the years but I still see the same road, same entrance as it was back then. I am too lazy to go in to check the details and I am not too crazy about it either.

This may not seem as a big deal because, as many would say, the whole world is a small place; nevertheless it gave me a kick when I was there at the Chennai airport.

Both the instances that I mentioned above, remind me of this example a friend used to cite while teaching the ‘One Point Compactification’ theory in topology: we can (theoretically) combine the two infinities of the real line to get its mapping on a circle . Similarly, life, in spite of apparently moving forward, brings up things that we think we have left behind already.
It scares me to think what could happen if the space and time are not as passive as we assume them to be; because isn't it too much of a coincidence for (apparently) random and disconnected events to fall so often so well - correlated.