I did return for two weeks to my hometown, after almost 30 years, and an uncle who had cancer for many years, died exactly within the two weeks I was there. I could not help thinking: ‘of 30 years, these two particular weeks I happen to be here, have been the most decisive for this man’. We weren’t close or anything, in fact we were little more than strangers. And the weirdest one of all: in 2012 I damaged my knee. I was dragging myself around, alone, in my apartment by pushing an office chair which had wheels, for months while waiting for my operation. I didn’t particularly suffer physically: fortunately there was no pain, and I could get all my groceries delivered at my address. Of course I was scared, etc, but in retrospect, it could have been worse. Well, out of the blue, my sister sends me an email that went something like: ‘Hey. Are you allright? I ‘sensed’ something weird….’. That is all she wrote. I could not believe it, my jaw dropped, because this was completely out of character: she rarely ever wrote to me, although we always kept in touch from time to time, but really only to send birthdays greetings and the like….in short, each was too busy living their life. Of course, I made no mention to any of my relatives about my difficult situation, something each of us actually always did, as we never wanted to trouble the other in any ways; even though ‘life’ had broken our family, we still loved each other, we just weren’t living together anymore. You know, that stuff is nothing so uncommon, although of course each of us is a unique individual with a unique story. Upon reading, I thought to myself: ‘If I tell her what happened, she’ll live the rest of her life in damn paranoia……she’ll always be getting the feeling that maybe she’s ‘sensing’ something (whatever that means).’. Well, I wanted to destroy the chance of THAT happening. So I wrote back: ‘Heeeeeey! How you’ve been? Hope all is ok. And, just what the heck are you talking about? I am totally fine, ha ha. Hugs.’. I believe I am a ‘rational’ person (what a lame and common thing to say….), but this was one of the weirdest things that happened to me. To me at least, it seemed the chance of 1 in a million.
Schopenhauer wrote an essay about it, which both Jung and Einstein had read. Paraphrasing: 'Even the most skeptical people such as ourselves, will have witnessed this phenomenon at one time or another....'
''Finding exactly what you need at the precise moment you need it''
I didn't ever think about that, it was only after I have read the above sentence that I recognized several striking examples of this happening to me
I did return for two weeks to my hometown, after almost 30 years, and an uncle who had cancer for many years, died exactly within the two weeks I was there. I could not help thinking: ‘of 30 years, these two particular weeks I happen to be here, have been the most decisive for this man’. We weren’t close or anything, in fact we were little more than strangers. And the weirdest one of all: in 2012 I damaged my knee. I was dragging myself around, alone, in my apartment by pushing an office chair which had wheels, for months while waiting for my operation. I didn’t particularly suffer physically: fortunately there was no pain, and I could get all my groceries delivered at my address. Of course I was scared, etc, but in retrospect, it could have been worse. Well, out of the blue, my sister sends me an email that went something like: ‘Hey. Are you allright? I ‘sensed’ something weird….’. That is all she wrote. I could not believe it, my jaw dropped, because this was completely out of character: she rarely ever wrote to me, although we always kept in touch from time to time, but really only to send birthdays greetings and the like….in short, each was too busy living their life. Of course, I made no mention to any of my relatives about my difficult situation, something each of us actually always did, as we never wanted to trouble the other in any ways; even though ‘life’ had broken our family, we still loved each other, we just weren’t living together anymore. You know, that stuff is nothing so uncommon, although of course each of us is a unique individual with a unique story. Upon reading, I thought to myself: ‘If I tell her what happened, she’ll live the rest of her life in damn paranoia……she’ll always be getting the feeling that maybe she’s ‘sensing’ something (whatever that means).’. Well, I wanted to destroy the chance of THAT happening. So I wrote back: ‘Heeeeeey! How you’ve been? Hope all is ok. And, just what the heck are you talking about? I am totally fine, ha ha. Hugs.’. I believe I am a ‘rational’ person (what a lame and common thing to say….), but this was one of the weirdest things that happened to me. To me at least, it seemed the chance of 1 in a million.
Schopenhauer wrote an essay about it, which both Jung and Einstein had read. Paraphrasing: 'Even the most skeptical people such as ourselves, will have witnessed this phenomenon at one time or another....'