Keep On Messaging: Synchronistically
Sometimes messages reach us at exactly the right time
I love to read your messages. Being an ‘empty nester’ I sometimes feel a little lonely, a paradox for an introvert who guards her alone time with care and insistent regularity.
But, thinking about how we do need others in our life to balance ourselves out and to feel loved and that balance of reciprocation, I began writing this story. I have too been thinking about how strange it is that sometimes we bump into exactly the right person, or something happens, good or bad, and we take a different path, plane, route, or train because of a chance meeting, or one that leads to that meeting.
Of course, there are now a few groundhog day style films out there, and some illustrate better than others that there are opportunities every day if only we could seize them and move forward instead of staying stuck, but what if we applied the same notion of synchronicity that Deepak Chopra applied in their book of the same name, and we focused on something for a while only to have it come into our periphery just as I did today when wishing for more butterflies? (I was merely responding to a wonderful DEP’ prompt.) An hour later three of them appeared on my buddleja (butterfly bush), which is currently in full bloom.
I photographed some of them for you as I am lucky enough to have a good and handy camera. I was so happy when all 3 appeared and danced around me just after I sent my draft wishing story to ‘Dancing Elephants Press’, and my wishes were butterflies.
And then the following day, while this story sat in the drafts box, I saw 12 butterflies all at once in a garden I tend to regularly. (This has never happened before.) You see, I got my wish Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles:
The white butterflies came too (4 of them) were too quick for me, and a new one I had to look up called The Gatekeeper:
I was so excited by my photograph that I found a butterfly app from the NRC and started to upload the photograph to it. The National Records Center is a UK conservation center. Learn about it here. (The link takes you out of Medium.)
The idea for that butterfly wish was originally prompted by a challenge from Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles who is spreading positivity around Medium and the universe.
Well, we all go through trials too, and it helps to know others are too.
Maybe we could all imagine ourselves out of those trials and into something more positive and less painful like being surrounded by butterflies; I think it is sometimes easier when we can hear about others struggling too though, not to gloat, but to feel some sort of loneliness lifting as we understand this is normal and
they too suffer as I am
a line that came to me when reading a Medium story, and that is the message in the song at the end of the story by Leah Lynch – go read and listen…it is called, ‘Get up Keep Going’.
And then, as I was editing this one, here came this (on the same subject, but different) into my periphery:
Do great minds think alike, Bernie Pullen?
With gratitude to Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, and all the wonderful editors at Dep’ until next time,
Hermione
Before you go…some interesting and supportive writers to lift your spirits:
Tagging: Monoreena Acharjee Majumdar Terry Pottinger Elvira Yuzbay Ted Czukor Dr John Your NativeFriend Manali Mitra Shubha Apte Annelise Lords and Sanghita Pal
