Background – I had a heated discussion with my dear friend Sujatha at
the gym this week about our struggling economy.
The subject centered on the unemployment rate and the fear of one’s
spouse losing their job. Sujatha is of
the mind that if you think about a subject, and focus on it intently, that you
will bring some form of it into being; be it a positive thought and something
you desire, or be it a negative thought rooted in fear. This belief is commonly called the “Law of
attraction” and it was the motivation behind Sujatha’s desperate attempts to
change the subject so that we wouldn't attract
something negative from this very negative conversation! In general I agree with her, but stubbornly wanted
to make my point (I’m Irish and us Irishwoman want to make our point when we
want to make it, regardless of the consequences!), therefore I turned my
frustration to her and told her that she has no fear of this because her
husband is an orthopedic surgeon and that there is no chance he will lose his
job. In other words, she has the luxury
of not having to worry about this subject and therefore it’s easy to ignore it.
Sujatha is an extremely kind and sensitive person and
therefore my frustration wasn’t lost on her.
In fact, she spent most of the remaining day thinking about what might
cause her husband to lose his job because I had been a good Irish woman and
made my point! After much consideration, Sujatha came up with just two
realistic scenarios in which her husband could lose the ability to perform his
job; loss of his eyesight, or loss of the use of his hands.
S.C.O.U.T. - Sujatha’s husband arrived home from work that night and
while he was pulling off his wedding ring she noticed that he winced while ever
so gently wiggling the ring off his finger.
She asked him what was wrong and he told her that his assistant had
dropped a heavy instrument on his hand that day and that it must have bruised
because it was still very tender.
Sujatha was dumbfounded as she connected the amount of focus she had
poured into the thought of her husband hurting his hands that day to the fact
that he was now, for the first time in Sujatha’s memory, standing in front of
her nursing just such an injury. Thankfully
it wasn’t serious, just a fractured thumb and blackened nail, no career ending injury, but the uncanny timing of this event
gave Sujatha pause none the less.
You can decide for yourself if you think these events were
connected, or nothing more than a coincidence, but for the record Sujatha, I
give you my Irishwoman’s promise (for whatever that’s worth), that we will now
only speak of positive things when we meet at the gym ;)
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