I’d like to think that for the most part I listen to that voice inside me. The one that says don’t leave the house today, or maybe just sways me in a different direction. I also believe in signs. I think they are all around us. My husband laughs when I tell him I came straight home and cancelled my errands because weird things kept happening to me and I took it as a sign to just go home. By a sign I mean, several people being rude to me, spilling a drink on my self or being cut off several times.
So, I hope you don’t think I’m insane, but I really listen to these things. I feel alot of people do too, but don’t acknowledge that fact. Here is my latest story. I’m sure you will be able to relate.
On Tuesday I set out to take my boys to New Jersey, we stopped to take in a movie along the way. So here is how it started. While pulling out of the parking lot a woman almost hit me, she was yelling at me from her window. I guess she didn’t feel that I stopped long enough at the stop sign. Okay. So then I decided to take a completely different route to save time. Once I got to route 84 it was a parking lot, I’m not sure why. So I get off an exit and they have the road closed due to construction. I don’t really know where I am. So i follow the car in front of me hoping for a miracle. Twenty minutes later I finally get myself onto the Thruway. I start to get that you should just go home feeling, but I can’t. I make a mental note and try to be super careful and alert, but I couldn’t turn around.
So, I’m on the thruway and find myself behind a truck for awhile in the center lane. I decided that this isn’t the best idea and I’m not in a hurry so I ease off and move to the right lane. As I am moving over I hear a loud sound and the next thing I know the trucks tire comes flying out behind the truck. I brake as do others as pieces of the tire begin to litter the road. I take a deep breath and start moving again. The rest of my trip was uneventful. But it did get me thinking, about the feeling I got when I was behind the truck.
I don’t see these things as a series of unrelated events. I see them as ultimately connected to each other. I just wanted to post this because I feel that people blow off these things as luck or mere coincidence. I don’t believe that is so. Nor do I believe that if you have an accident or something terrible happens to you it’s your fault. After all they call it an What I’m trying to say is that if you get THAT feeling, try to listen to what it’s trying to tell you.
Thanks for reading and be safe!
Erica says
Hooray for instincts! Reminds me of the incredible resource, "Protecting The Gift" by Gavin deBecker, where he emphasizes the importance of parents' instinct in protecting our kids. Thanks for sharing your experience, Milena!
Walter says
I believe in that inner voice stuff. My great college psych professor once told me a story about a woman who couldn't sleep because she kept on having nightmares that grew in intensity and they were always the same with a clock approaching 3am! One night the nightmare got so bad that sleeping was hopeless, she went into her babies room and picked him out of the crib for comfort. Suddenly she heard a really loud crash and ran back with her baby in her arms back to the babies room and found that the chandelier fell off the ceiling and crushed the babies crib. Suddenly she had a creepy revelation: she turned around to look at the clock: 3am!