Coincidences are all over the place. Just Look!
Thursday, May 10, 2007
You ever notice the little coincidences that happen all the time? Maybe it's just me, but as soon as I find out about something new, when something crosses my path that interests me, or when I meet a new acquaintance, there it or they are, the next day or week, coming up in some other place in my life. A few recent examples that have hit me in waves have forced me to post on the subject.
A few days ago, on this very blog, I posted a story about the Miracle of Fatima involving my friend and me. Then a few days later, Sue gives me a book called "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates", a novel by Tom Robbins thats really interesting and that I can't seem to put down. So of course, starting on page 145, Robbins' main character Switters has to help his stepsister with a book report about that very story. Later on it serves as a very significant plot point and a coincidence to Switters in much the same vein as it proved a coincidence to me. I haven't heard mention or read anything of the Miracle of Fatima since that very strange occurrence in the summer of 2006 that I referred to in my post entitled "Miracle?". Yet, as soon as I decide to share it on this blog, there it is, showing itself to me a few days later in a novel (that i highly recommend). Theres got to be something here. I'm going to have to research this story further. More on that as it happens.
Another coincidence, again involving the novel "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates", happened to me just after that. A recurring theme throughout the book is "Finnegan's Wake", James Joyce's last novel. So as I was reading the Sunday Times Arts and Leisure section this weekend in Cape Cod, where Sue lives, the one who gave me the book "Fierce Invalids...", there was an article by Charles McGrath about Philip K. Dick. In the article, McGrath refers to "VALIS" as Dick's "Finnegan's Wake", "a book more fun to talk about than to read." The Times article also refers repeatedly to the film "Blade Runner", arguably the best adaptation of Dick's work (based on his story "Do Androids Dream"). "Blade Runner" also happens to be Bobby Case's favorite film. Bobby Case is a major character in "Fierce Invalids...". Sorry Sue - I stole the Arts and Leisure section so i wouldn't forget to post this.
Yet another example of coincidence happened to me last week. On Wednesday, May 2nd, Andy and I went to play basketball at a local church in nearby Franklin Square. We were supposed to play in the gym downstairs, but the PTA had set up a fundraiser and so we couldn't actually play. There were only two other guys who showed up before we left, being that there was no reason to stick around. Andy and I had never met either one of them. But then, sure enough, two nights later, at the bar where Andy's bartending and I'm having a beer, in walks one of those very guys. Turns out he hadn't been to that particular bar in over five years, but he of course showed up two days after we first met him. I should also mention that this type of coincidence happens to Switters in the novel "Fierce Invalids...", only to a much more significant degree, but I'll let you read it and find out what I mean.
Also-one last thing. You ever notice how a lot of times when you're watching TV and you say a word, the person on television who is talking says the same exact word, just after you do? Maybe I just watch too much TV, but I don't think so. It seems to happen more often than it should.
These types of thing happen to me all the time. Does anyone else find that? For some reason, I feel like it must happen to a lot of people. I can think of many more examples of when it has happened to me, but I just wanted to relay the most recent to prove the point. Maybe it all comes from reading what interests you, and what interests you often has overlapping themes, maybe it comes from observing things too closely and making unnecessary and unrelated connections, or maybe it stems from the natural and sometimes inexplicable flow that life often seems to have. Who knows? All I know is that I believe it points to something else, that theres something larger than ourselves going on, and thats pretty sweet.
2 Comments:
It is strange when things like that happen, I don't really think its coincidences, but who knows really... all we can do is guess!
mmmm... floor pie
i dont think theyre coincedences either. but they are awesome.
"weeeeell, if it isn't the leader of the wiener patrol, boning up on his neeerd lessons."
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