I'm having one of those days where all the little errors or not-quite-diligent-editing moments are coming back to haunt me all at once. Annoying. I generally try to be on the ball at work, but apparently today is just not my day. (As yes, some of these errors are from today...really, I should just go home now).
It's weird how the stars align sometimes. I tend to get annoyed when people get all astrological on me, but I occasionally think there might be something to it.
Why am I making errors today? Why are errors that I made months ago just coming up today? Why would I lose two followers on my blog today? One I can understand (well not really, I mean why would anyone voluntarily give up reading the fabulousness that is me?), but suddenly two on the same day? Weird.
Back to the astrology thing for a moment - as I said, I don't buy into that crap. But I do think there is "something" going on in the universe that can't always be scientifically explained away. I do believe in the concept of "meant to be."
Not 100% of course. I also believe in free will and all that jazz. But sometimes...I don't know, sometimes it seems like things align for a specific reason. In my life, this seems apparent when I consider the topic of jobs.
I firmly believe that someone wanted me to work at my last job. I had a zillion and one interviews, and was only offered a summer position at my last place for two months after the interview (not the job I interviewed for, the consolation prize). I was convinced that in two months I would have a permanent job, but left the door open.
And sure enough, two months later I was still jobless. And by the end of that summer they offered me a permanent position in the other company housed in that building.
Now as you all know, I was quite unhappy with that job a long time. I kept wanting to quit, but it seemed like circumstances kept preventing me from doing so. This went on for a couple of years. And sure enough, in my last 6 months there, I ended up with full responsibility for some projects I had only assisted on before.
Had I left two years earlier I would have: a) not been given managerial tasks on those projects, and b) would have thought that I was simply bad at my job, and that was why I had to leave, instead of realizing that it was a personality conflict that made me so unhappy. All this has resulted in a much better paying job, confidence that I wouldn't have had otherwise, and a lot more peace of mind.
But astrology? Psychics? Entertainment. Period. I enjoy me a good psychic visit every once in a while, but I have never found one that's told me anything shocking, or accurate. I won't call them frauds, I'm certain they do have "feelings" or sense things, but it's just never really worked for me.
But on days like today, I can't help but think there's something going on out there. It just seems too coincidental that a bunch of these things seem to be happening at once.
What do you think? Or more to the point, what do you believe?
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Wasn't Dionne Warwick Related to Whitney Houston or Something?
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I'm completely on board with your assessment. I love the esoteric stuff, but can't quite believe. I do believe in predestiny, mostly as a lesson you need to learn before you can move on to the next stage of life or whatever. That's how I ended up with my husband. An improbable and unexplainable string of events that melded us together. And it didn't stop at the wedding, either. I left him once, we were separated for almost a year when I found out I had cancer, which brought us back together. I keep wondering, "What do I have left to learn from this asshole?"
I’ve never been to a psychic. I’m kind of on the fence on whether I believe or not. I kind of like not knowing some things. Now if they want to tell me I won the lottery, sign me up for an appointment.
I definitely agree, I posted about my day of "Omen's" on Monday.
Some of the time things are *so* easy. Some of the time it's impossible to even buy a cup of coffee without nearly being run down in the street six times.
Yes I think she was.
I like that you are now using a real photo now!
I think that some stuff happens for a reason, at other times it is just a case of "shit happens".
Psychics? I think that there are real ones, but they don't tend to be too public about it.
I can't help but put some stock into astrology, if only because I am SO VERY MUCH the person described by my sign (with the one difference that I totally suck with money). I wouldn't plan my life by it or anything, but I still read my horoscope.
And there is *definitely* some truth to biorhythms. Any time I'm having a day where I feel particularly stupid, or exhausted, or melancholy, I'll check and my intellectual, physical, or emotional biorhythm will be totally bottomed out.
But for the most part I think I believe in Karma, and the idea that everything sort of works in cycles--it's just the duration of those cycles that's a mystery, which is why we're always taken by surprise when a run of good or bad luck begins or ends.
I've never been to a psychic, but one of these days I'm totally going to go, just for shits and giggles :)
I'm a skeptic when it comes to psychics but I also think that there are some people who really do have that "gift" - even if these are the exception rather than the rule.
I'm more of the karma/God's will believer. But, I'm all about free will. I think that things happen for a reason but that they are based upon the choices that we make for ourselves.
I do know that on a full moon night, we will get bombarded with crazy patients at the hospital...or at least it seems that way.
I've been to a fortune teller once. She was fun. And she told me that I would be promoted. 2 weeks later, I was promoted. It was weird.
But, sometimes I do think that things happen they way they do for a reason.
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