Background – I had to leave my son Jake’s game early last Sunday to go
pick up my other boy. I didn’t think it
was any big deal though as Jake had just been pulled out of the game, and I’m
one of those selfish shallow parents who really only cares what’s going on when
my kid is on the field, sad but true. As
I was heading out, I commented to one of the parents on our team that I was
still hoping for one more “Xtreme” goal, preferably from my son! I had a brief moment of deep wishing for this
highly unlikely event as the parent I had commented to worked on hiding his
snicker at the thought of my boy scoring the goal.
Unbeknownst to me, my husband, who was staying to watch, was
practicing some “visualization” by imagining our son scoring the winning goal
for the team as well. This was a silly
exercise because not only was Jake sitting on the bench, but he is a defender
and is rarely in position to even get near our goal, let alone score. Still, we were both having nearly the same
thought, at the same time.
S.C.O.U.T. - I had just left the parking lot when Jake was substituted
in at midfield to give another player a much needed break. It took less than two minutes for him to make
his way down the field and score the game winning goal. The first goal he had ever scored for this
team… not just the first winning goal, the very first goal ever!! My phone lit up with the message from my
husband “Jake just scored the
goal!!!! UFB!!!”
Now this may all seem like just a coincidence, I mean don’t
all parents spend most of their thoughts during a game visualizing their kid
scoring the game winning goal? Maybe
some, but not me. Like I said, Jake is a
defender and scoring goals isn’t part of his “job” on the field. I have actually never had the thought that
Jake would be scoring “a” goal, let
alone “the” goal! After talking with my husband, we agreed that
this wasn’t one of our usual thoughts during Jake’s games, and we both had that
tingle run down our spine as we put the events together.
The question I have, and one you’re probably batting around
right now as well is “if we had a chance the very next day to repeat these
events, and we focused on Jake scoring the goal, we focused until our eyes
ached and the veins on our temples bulged, would Jake once again score the
goal?” I feel the answer is “no”, which
make all this seem even more like a coincidence. The problem is…I know somewhere deep inside
me, and I know from carefully observing the world around me, that this was no
coincidence, and then I move on to the next question… so then “what is it”?
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