Connections....

I often find myself thinking, is there a higher self ? Is there something beyond my sight? What is it that connects hearts or people or just thoughts? And then i think of a book i read, where he claims that we are all connected from past lives only playing different roles in this.
Why do i get along well with some people in the first go, and with some, it may take a million meetings, and still i will say, i don't know? Then i turn back saying, maybe this is true, we are all connected from past lives not new...
I have been living in Bombay all my life, what made me choose Pune then ? Of all the friends i made those two years, why is it only 3 that i have always connected to well. No matter where i am, they all take time to know and be there, to share in happiness or despair...
Then what made me go to Bangalore at that point of time, when nothing really was on my mind? Why did i find the dream job there? How did i make my friends for life? How did these things all fall in place?
Now i am in France, living with a family that i had never met before. They had planned to take me in for only a few days, but we just connected with amaze. I feel like i have known them forever and past days, but no, the fact is that i met them only now. I share common things like interests and likes, which i sometimes don't even do with my own family or friends lives.
Then i think of friends who are here with me, all coming from other cities. I connected quickly with some, but with others, i cannot no matter what chants i hum. But this is what i guess it all comes to, past lives and strings we are here to renew...