Are you familiar with the word “synchronicity”? When my son, Marshall, told me what I was experiencing occasionally were synchronicities, it was the first time I’d heard it. They’ve occurred many, many times in my life, but I never knew the term for them.
This is the definition in the dictionary:
“an apparently meaningful coincidence in time of two or more similar or identical events that are casually unrelated.”
Here’s an example of a simple synchronicity: you’re reading a book while the tv is on. At the exact second you read a particular word in the book, a person on tv says that same word. They can be much more complex, but that gives you an idea.
Since synchronicities seem to happen to me quite often, I’ve started making note of them, and will share the most impressive ones here from time to time.
Yesterday morning, I experienced what, to me, qualifies as a synchronicity. Let me set it up for you: just last week I had taken some photos of my in-laws’ elderly kitty, Bob-tail. Sadly, Bob-tail passed away just a couple of days ago, on Wednesday. Yesterday morning, I sent one of the pictures to my mother-in-law by e-mail.
A little while later, not realizing that my photo program, with the picture of Bob-tail, was still open in the background, I was listening to a song, “How Long”, by The Eagles, on You-tube. I reduced the You-tube screen, and saw the photo of Bob-tail.
“How Long” was still playing on my computer. The line of the song that I heard right when I saw the picture?
“I’ve run just as far as I can run”.
Whenever a synchronicity occurs, I’m always struck with the thought: “Wow, I can’t believe that just happened”.
Do these happen to you? Or did you just learn a new word? If so, you can thank Marshall.
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