A Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing: Reader Contribution - Reaching deep and finding the "will"

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 17, 2011

Reader Contribution - Reaching deep and finding the "will"

Background - Kelly wrote: OMG!! That is so funny! I absolutely love, love, love hearing these “Strange Cases Of Uncanny Timing”. I’ve actually been having one myself lately. It’s sort of a morbid topic but now it’s just nagging at me. Listen to this…

On my way down to the beach with the kids, I was all alone in the front of the car. The boys were in the back seats and were, as usual, all “plugged-in” so the car was nice and quiet. It gave my mind a chance to wander and I quickly became lost in my thoughts. I was thinking, sadly enough, about dying because of a horrible accident we had just passed on the highway. I started thinking about the fact that my husband and I hadn’t done our wills yet and that, if tragedy struck, it would be an extra burden, in addition to the grief my parents would face, as they tried to put things together for my kids. The thought eventually faded away as we arrived in Williamsburg, got unpacked for our visit and headed into the kitchen for dinner.

S.C.O.U.T. - Shortly into the normal dinner conversation, my dad takes a detour and ironically brings up the subject regarding the necessity of getting a will done for me and my husband in case tragedy strikes. It was totally out of the blue, and stopped me dead in my tracks as he had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA that I had been thinking about it only three hours earlier! It was weird!!

We headed down to the beach house the next day and then, as if I was getting a sign from above, I open the paper that morning and find that they have dedicated an entire section to making a will and estate planning!!! Finally, as if to make this EVEN weirder, I hit the beach that afternoon and not one, but TWO of the magazines I was reading had articles on making a will, selecting an executor, guardians, living wills, etc. It sent chills up and down my spine!! Needless to say, as soon as I get home I will be finding a lawyer to get this done!

We agree with you Kelly… WEIRD!! And for anyone who doubts it, go to the store and count the number of articles you find while flipping through the magazines and newspapers that discuss appointing an executor and constructing a will. I bet you can’t find more than one or two. Was Kelly attracting these pieces of information, including somehow cosmically tapping her dad to broach the subject? Or, was she having some sort of mini-premonition that these things were going to be crossing her path and subconsciously knew it was going to really bug her that she hadn’t written a will yet? OR, as always, were they nothing more than just a chilling coincidence? Personally, it makes me think there’s a lot going on around us that we can’t see with our eyes.