Past Lives Calling, Please Pick Up

Pollice Verso, 1872, Jean-Léon Gérôme (Phoenix Art Museum)

For RG in Malaysia:

Victors received laurels, monetary payment, plus donations from the crowd. They could also win their freedom. At the end of service a gladiator won a rudis. He could then become a gladiator trainer or a freelance bodyguard -- like the men who followed Clodius Pulcher, the good-looking trouble-maker who plagued Cicero's life.

(http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romeslavery/p/Gladiators.htm)

For everyone: 

Consider that when you are drawn to a stranger for some inexplicable reason, that person might have been calling you/calling out to the universe to solve something before you even realized it. Karma usually plays a role in this. Past lives calling? Answer: usually.