A Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing: Reader contribution - The ultimate "biggest believer" sends the welcome wagon

What does it mean?

You've been thinking about somone. Somone you haven't heard from in weeks, months or even years, and within a short period of time you receive some kind of communication from them. Twice I received letters from a woman I had worked with years before within a day of thinking about her for the first time in a long period of time. The second instance I even stopped in front of the mailbox and had the idea that there was going to be a letter from her because it had already happened once and sure enough, there was a letter in the box. My question is obvious. What is this phenomenon that boils down to a "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing"?

Is it God? Is it the Universe? Entanglement? Are our brains Quantum computers? Is it the "Law of Attraction"?, or is it all nothing more than a coincidence? Carl Jung called it synchronicity and it happens all the time. Does it happen to you? It happens to me and I find myself wondering "What does it mean?". Decide for yourself as you follow my diary of another "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing", also known as a S.C.O.U.T!

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Reader contribution - The ultimate "biggest believer" sends the welcome wagon

Background – Tori wrote: Eleven years ago I was preparing to move back to Virginia to the town I grew up in, Manassas. I was a little nervous about leaving my mom and my home to go and try something new with my dad, but owning a coffee shop sounded awesome since I was a total “Friends” geek!! A co-worker of mine sensed my apprehension and offered up a potential friend for support when I arrived. She told me about her late husband’s sister who lives in the same town and owns a photography studio. Giving me the woman’s contact info, she told me that this woman is a little older than me but would be a terrific person to help me get started on my new life and urged me to look her up when I got settled.

A few days after we settled in and started making the coffee shop our own, an older, beautiful lady with a warm smile and a cheerful personality came into the shop and struck up a conversation, which centered around the fact that I was the youngest business owner in town!

S.C.O.U.T. - After some pleasant banter, she began to tell me the story of how her brother was always her biggest believer and how his life had been cut short, leaving behind a wife and two boys…. It then began to dawn on me that I had heard this story before, and took me no time to determine that this is the woman my co-worker had urged me to find when I got here. We were both stunned by the fact that she had unknowingly “found” me before I could even give her a call, as she had absolutely no idea that I had worked with her deceased brother’s wife. We are still dear friends, talk to each other nearly every day, and often laugh about the uncanny timing of our first meeting! I don’t know if this qualifies as a S.C.O.U.T., but I thought I would share.

Thanks for sharing Tori. The only qualification for a S.C.O.U.T. is that it’s a “Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing”. The tingle running down my spine says “absolutely”!! I could go through my regular list of observations, but let’s just say that I have no doubt that this inspiring “human connection” was no accident. My goofy dog Scout just wants to know if your coffee shop served dog treats, he hears that’s a “thing” now. Sigh.