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sobriqueHave you ever had one of those moments where and event or object seems to 'resonate'.
One of those feelings that if the world was more magical (in a high fantasy sense) it would have just glowed?
In the last few years, there's been a few occasions where 'I just knew' that something would happen.
The classic example was the tall ships race, back at college. I applied to go, did the team building stuff. I was mostly convinced that I would be going sailing the baltic.
And then heard my application wasn't successful, but I'd be put on the waiting list.
2 months later however, one of the participants dropped out, and I was next in line.
This was good news, but not a suprise. At some level, I think I knew.
I had a similar sort of experience when applying for the job at AAH Pharmceuticals. I 'had a strong feeling' that I'd get it, and whilst I wasn't wanting to count my chickens, I was already starting to consider whether I'd take it or not (in the end, I decided not to).
I've met a few people that I've known that we're going to be friends.
I'm sure most people have experienced feeling of deja vu. I've certainly had a few of those.
Now there's one theory that things like this, deja vu etc. are remembered only because they're confirmed - we may have many moments we're definite that the world is going to work out in our favour, only to be denied, but because the 'spooky co-incidence' doesn't occur, we don't recall it. After all, that was just a run of bad luck.
Or perhaps we're just creating self fulfilling prophecy - by being determined that something will be, we make it _much_ more likely through our own actions.
Personally though, I'd rather believe in the former. That destiny is a force of it's own, and sometimes you can pick up on that.
Perhaps some empirical testing might confirm that - if I record each time I think that way, and try and correlate, then I'll probably find that there's no 'substantive' link. Which is why I'm not going to do it, because I rather like the delusion that there's some things that were just meant to be.
One of those feelings that if the world was more magical (in a high fantasy sense) it would have just glowed?
In the last few years, there's been a few occasions where 'I just knew' that something would happen.
The classic example was the tall ships race, back at college. I applied to go, did the team building stuff. I was mostly convinced that I would be going sailing the baltic.
And then heard my application wasn't successful, but I'd be put on the waiting list.
2 months later however, one of the participants dropped out, and I was next in line.
This was good news, but not a suprise. At some level, I think I knew.
I had a similar sort of experience when applying for the job at AAH Pharmceuticals. I 'had a strong feeling' that I'd get it, and whilst I wasn't wanting to count my chickens, I was already starting to consider whether I'd take it or not (in the end, I decided not to).
I've met a few people that I've known that we're going to be friends.
I'm sure most people have experienced feeling of deja vu. I've certainly had a few of those.
Now there's one theory that things like this, deja vu etc. are remembered only because they're confirmed - we may have many moments we're definite that the world is going to work out in our favour, only to be denied, but because the 'spooky co-incidence' doesn't occur, we don't recall it. After all, that was just a run of bad luck.
Or perhaps we're just creating self fulfilling prophecy - by being determined that something will be, we make it _much_ more likely through our own actions.
Personally though, I'd rather believe in the former. That destiny is a force of it's own, and sometimes you can pick up on that.
Perhaps some empirical testing might confirm that - if I record each time I think that way, and try and correlate, then I'll probably find that there's no 'substantive' link. Which is why I'm not going to do it, because I rather like the delusion that there's some things that were just meant to be.
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