A Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing: December 7, 2011 - "Kim meet Kelly

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!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

December 7, 2011 - "Kim meet Kelly - Kelly meet Kim"; a cosmic introduction

Background – My yoga instructor Kim stopped me after class to ask me how I knew a woman named Angela Westbrook. Angela is Kim’s neighbor and Kim had seen Angela on my list of Facebook friends and wondered how I knew her. I told Kim that she had once been my neighbor as well, many years ago. This should have been the end of the conversation, but for some reason I felt compelled to ask Kim if she also knew another of my old neighbors, Kelly Stanley. Kim didn't recognize the name or any of the other details I was pouring out about Kelly; she has three boys, they play football, she has blond hair, she lives out in Leesburg… the only thing I didn’t mention about Kelly was Kelly’s husband, Hardy. Kim continued to insist that she had no idea who I was talking about and I finally let the subject drop, wondering myself why I was so obsessed with connecting Kim to Kelly. I had this strange feeling that they had to know each other.

S.C.O.U.T. – One week later I received a text from my dear friend Kelly informing me that she had met my yoga instructor Kim, having absolutely no idea that I had been interrogating Kim about this soon-to-be (but currently non-existent) relationship only a week before! I assumed Angela had given a party in which both Kelly and Kim were invited and texted Kelly a message to that effect. Kelly replied with “???, what does Angela have to do with this? I met her at Hardy’s holiday party. Louis (Kim’s husband) and Hardy work together! Isn’t that crazy!”

What a Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing! In addition to this weirdness, Kim has, for all the five years I’ve known her, always reminded me of Kelly and I often think of her when I’m in Kim’s class. Is it just a cosmic coincidence that they would randomly meet? Was I having a premonition that they were about to meet? Did I somehow “attract” this meeting? These are the questions I ask myself, and then I wait. I wait and I wonder if the answer will ever be revealed.

My goofy dog Scout just gives me his wise, knowing look. A look that says “patience, all will be revealed time…” I scratch him between the eyes as he drops his heavy head into my lap, and I continue to wait, and to contemplate.