A Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing: July 19, 2010

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, June 19, 2011

July 19, 2010 - Mixed signals

Background - I had to avoid Rte. 7 because the traffic was at a complete stand-still. I decided to take a detour that would take me far off my intended path and quickly got annoyed at myself at the length I would have now have to travel. Perhaps it would have just been better to just sit in the traffic for a few minutes. I had already started down the path of this detour and decided to soothe my irritated nerves by telling myself that I had subconsciously chosen this way in order to avoid a car accident. Had I gone the other way perhaps that would have been the result.

S.C.O.U.T. – I had barely finished with this little mind trick to justify my actions, when a car pulled erratically out into the intersection I was about to pass through and came to a stop right in front of me. I could see the driver and quickly realized he wasn’t paying any attention to the road, he was talking with the passenger sitting next to him. I instinctively slammed on the brakes and laid about five feet of tire rubber before coming to a stop, only inches from the side of this man’s car. It was truly the closest I have come to having a serious car accident in all my thirty years of driving.

This incident left me wondering how I could have been thinking about avoiding a serious car accident and then seconds later nearly having my very first one in all my years of driving. Did I attract the near car accident by just thinking about “car accident”, or did I perhaps avoid it because I was focused on “avoiding a car accident”? Or as usual, there’s always the possibility that this was just a cosmic coincidence and has no meaning whatsoever.

My goofy dog Scout is still a bit shaken by this near miss and therefore tells me to just keep my eyes on the road, and to STOP thinking about car accidents altogether.