You can change an entire timeline just by sending a risky text or talking to a stranger. You need to act out of character to quantum leap. You need to be playing with the fabric of reality.
Encounters with strangers can be a humbling reminder of the vastness of the world and of each other, the impossible-feeling truth that each one of us contains an entire universe of inner life and a singular perspective, that as a species we have an incredible capacity for kindness, cruelty, courage and creativity.