Nothing in this Universe happens once

You will have to forgive me, I wrote it late Sunday night so it may be a bit melodramatic, BUT the core of the piece still remains, does nothing in this Universe only happen once?

My favourite series is called Bones, about a forensic anthropologist, I have all the series available and I watch them, like most of my DvDs over and over.  Today something struck me during one of the volumes – nothing in this universe happens just once!

Quote from The Skull in the Desert:

Angela: [...] I'm a little afraid that... I'm just afraid that I don't have a generous heart. I'm afraid that I won't have the chance that I had with Kirk ever again.
Brennan: You will.
Angela: How can you be so sure?
Brennan: Because nothing in this universe happens just once, Angela. Nothing. Infinity goes in both directions. There's no unique event, no singular moment.
Angela: (laughs) I don't know what that means.

Basically Angela is asking – will she find love again?

And Brennan is saying – absolutely because nothing in this universe happens only once!

It made me think, is it true that nothing will happen once and thus do we always get a second chance.

This can be a positive thing and a negative thing I guess.

The fact that true love can happen more than once in a lifetime is good news or is it?

Doesn’t the fact that you could find your true love, your soul mate, more than once in a lifetime dilute the first?

Or does it provide hope to those that have lost love, those whose love is not reciprocated, those whose love moved on, those whose love time ran out on?

If infinity goes in both directions does that mean that old love can return?  Or that a once rejected love can be accepted? 

Or does it just mean that because of the cycle of life that even after love, a devastating ‘heart ache’, one that you thought you would never recover from, if enough time passes you just get over it, because that is the cycle of life?

I’m not sure that this works for me….surely we want true love to last forever, like in the fairytale, ‘and they lived happily ever after’.

There’s no unique event.  No singular moment.

Now I really don’t get this surely individuals have one-of-a-kind experiences?

I can’t imagine that I can have a specific experience more than once or that someone else could have that same unique, individual experience?

So in a way I get it and in another I don’t, and yet another I am not sure I want to, expect to comfort myself, such that Angela did, that love will come again – or can it only come again if you have experienced it for real at least once?

I am not sure that I have had the first experience of love – if love is that emotion that is reciprocated and you love as if a prince and princess in the fairytale?  I know that I have loved but not sure that I have loved and been loved in return, at the same moment in time.

Does this mean it will never happen OR that it will happen but over and over again in my lifetime?

Obviously this could apply to any and all experiences, feelings, emotions, situations etc etc etc…..