The guy in front of me took my favorite seat on the bus so I went and sat at the back. I don’t like sitting at the back of the bus but I had no choice tonight. On the way home I thought to myself, what am I going to blog about today? I have no idea. At that moment, the bus stopped and I happen to look out the window. There parked quietly in the dark was a galaxy gray NC roadster just like mine. The gate makes it look like it’s caged. I was positioned perfectly in front of it and the bus stopped long enough for me to take this photo.
How could it be that I was forced to sit in this very spot and then happened to look out to see an NC the same color as mine as I pondered my next blog topic? A coincidence? I THINK NOT! This car is a rare sight as it is. I hardly ever spot one.
There is meaning in everything we do and everything that happens to us. There are connections all around and we need only observe and welcome them. Just the other day, I walked into a book store, opened a book at random and read a paragraph without much thought to what I was reading. The next day, that small bit of information was exactly what I needed to know to answer a question a person asked me. Another time when I was a kid, I saw a toy that I wanted to buy which cost 50 bucks. I said that I needed 50 bucks out loud for no reason. No one heard me, or so I thought, a few days later while I was skiing I wiped out on a slope and as I lay there in pain I looked over and there in front of me was a big wad of cash amounting to 50 bucks!! Last year, I said here that I would buy a mansion or house. I didn’t know how I would be able to do it but since then a chain of events lead to me be able to purchase my own home. And it just took a little over a year since I declared to do it. A few years ago while riding the train, I thought of a girl I vaguely knew whom I hadn’t seen for almost 10 years. I was trying to recall her last name and finally I remembered it. At that moment as I got off the train there she was on the platform so I went over to say hi. She was cuter than ever and was impressed that I remembered her name. Good timing or what?! I’m not making this stuff up.
Yes I know, I sound like some new age infomercial, but I just needed some text to accompany the cool photo of the car above. Even so, don’t you think these experiences are the things that make life fun? They’re like breadcrumbs we look for which will eventually lead us to where we gotta go. Do you have an experience like this? Please share.
Roy, years ago I was in London. I went to get a visa at the Indian embassy. They told me to come back in two hours. So I walked around and eventually went down to the Thames and stood in the middle of one of the bridges whose name escapes me.
I had not long left Mexico and was missing it terribly. I thought of chums still there. And then I remembered a journalist who was sometimes in Mexico. He had last been there for the invasion of Grenada.
Anyway, I remember he had told me he owned a house boat on the Thames. So I stood there and wondered where his boat might be. Maybe just below me. I had not seen him for months.
With no boat in sight, I decided to return to the embassy. I turned. POW! The journalist was walking towards me.
He took me to the BBC and calmed me down with a cup of their canteen coffee.
My first time in Japan my friends introduce to a new friend, she liked to talk with me to practice spanish. 1 year later she traveled to my city but I couldn’t meet her, 2 years later I traveled to Europe to live and work, guess what? that girl came to Europe and recently I realized she lives and still lives 20 minutes walking from where I live right now… something similar happened with my girlfriend though it’s something more complicated anyway I do believe nothing is coincidence, but hey! you got to give a little push to make things happen sometimes…
I’ve had similiar events like that happen. Once I said I’d like to work in a bookstore and several months later, hey presto, a local bookstore (that rarely had openings) hired me. When I was trying to decide what kind of a car I’d buy I started to notice that I was seeing a lot of Ford Rangers (not really surprising since I live in wine country, but Chevys and Dodges are the dominate beasties here). I test drove one and liked it and bought a used one with more extras than the brand new one I was planning one getting. Lower mileage too. Woohoo!
Now I’m just waiting for that Junior Project Manager job in Tokyo to appear ;)
Today at school, I was wondering when my copy of Brain Age would arrive. It had been shipped on the same day and place as New Super Mario, but I got that game last week. I accepted that I might not get it after all. And then when I got home, POW! It was already there.
But it was not fate, it really was a coincidence. Only post hoc reasoning can make it anything more.
Roy, did I miss a post about your car? Why were you riding a bus instead?
Yeah, you sound like an an advert as a new age guru thingy. Maybe if I write here about wanting to complete my thesis by next week, you can make it happen? ;)
You guys need to look at your reasoning before you give Roy a hard time. There’s a difference between the type of coincidental experience he’s talking about and the type of things like packages arriving in a reasonable time frame or completing work on time. In his case, everything he talks about is unusual and beyond his control.
There’s a series of books written by Jane Roberts called the Seth Material which talk about creating your own reality and how we each do it unconsciously every moment. It’s not something you can wish or pray for because it happens in a manner you can’t force. If these books carry even a hint of truth about the nature of existence, old Roy is one up on you already if he’s unconsciously making things happen.
I’ve had plenty of similar experiences but the only one I can recall, a recent and startling one, is too complex to relate in a comment.
Roy, you are so right. Everything happens for a reason. Even the smallest things. Most people are unable to recognize it. But if we pay attention and think, we can see the connections.
When I was 14 it was my dream to be a professional programmer. I was a terrible math student. I almost flunked out of college the first two years. I got a degree in Business, not CS. In 1991 I graduated and found myself in Silicon Valley. I wanted to work at Apple. I applied and applied and got ignored. I took a small programming job at a startup. Then another startup, then Novell, and finally in 1996, Apple. Later Sony where I worked on PlayStation 2 and had a blast. Plus 1/2 dozen other great companies. My dream came true and in a bigger way than I ever could have imagined. All because I imagined it into existence by thinking about it every day.
In 1994 I decided I wanted to visit Japan. But I was too busy with work and it was too expensive. I watched Japanese TV rebroadcast from San Francisco incessantly. I immersed myself in all things Japanese. Sure enough in 2001 I finally got my chance and went. It was a blast and everything I had ever imagined - and more.
The upshot is that we become, or *manifest* that which we focus on. I believe the power of the human mind is unlimited but that we have only just begun to learn how to use its powers.
There is an *excellent* book called “The magic of believing” by Claude Bristol. I read that book in college and it changed my life . I would not have had the success I have had if I had not read that book and believed in my own abilities to make my dreams come true. The book is about creating your own reality by focusing on what you want and believing that you can attain it.
As further proof of the limitless connections of everything, that book even gives the example of a guy who wants to buy a roadster sports car but does nothing to achieve his goal and fails.
Now why do you suppose that I read THAT book 17 years ago and that I just HAPPENED by chance to stumble onto your blog where you talk about your roadster constantly and would then talk about exactly what the book was trying to describe? Does anyone here believe the two events are not connected?
There is another excellent book that describes quantum physics in a lay perons’ terms called “The Dancing Wu Li Masters”. In quantum physics subatomic particles are all connected at the atomic level. If there are two electrons with opposite spins in an atom and the two electrons then split off, their spins remain opposite no matter how much distance separates them. Even if the electrons later join other separate atoms their spins still stay reversed. Even if the two electrons split off the atom and travel to the opposite sides of the universe. They “know” what each others’ spins are and can somehow communicate their spin states to each other. Even if *one* of the electrons reverses its spin so does the other one!
The universe is wired right down to the atomic level for interconnections.
There are no random events. Everything has a meaning.
dear all,
particularly Shari.
Me too I have red the Seth material and it’s really unbelivable, interesting and it opens your mind.
And, I don’t know how to explain, but I think Roy is kind of antenna.
I was looking for a flat and looking for information on the internet and found his blog, and the stories about how many flats he changed in tokyo…
No coincidences yet, but I am sure soon or later we will find one!…
I believe in Karma… I’m currently trying to decide what kind of Karma I want.
Stoneman