waving my powers around
when i was younger woman (teehee) i had a special gift. i mean like a psychic 6th sense kind of gift. definitely not a power, probably shouldn't even call it a gift, but just a sense.
i had a recurrence of it today, which is why it's on my mind- i hadn't even noticed that i had lost it in the hustle and bustle of getting grown-up. then whammo, on the busride between qianmen and tiantan, while i was worrying that the busdriver had just announced that we wouldn't be making the usual stops, the universe hit me on the back of the head.
it used to happen to me all the time that i would just be walking somewhere, or driving along, and pass someone, or catch a glimpse of a person in the corner of my eye, and think that i recognized that person as my friend, some teacher, so-and-so. then i'd get a second look and it would turn out that it was not that person that i had thought it was. then maybe 10-20 seconds later, after i had walked a ways further or turned a corner or walked into a building, i would encounter just that very person that i thought i had just seen. seems like strange coincidence, i know, nothing to be excited about, if it weren't for the frequency at which it happened. in fact sometime it would happen three times in one day. just to be sure, i asked around, and people mostly said that this doesn't really happen to them.
this morning's incident was more of the same. the mental processing of it was a little muddled, because in china i am always thinking i see people i know (mostly whenever i see a white person i always think that they look like someone i've seen before) but i got the same instantaneous full-body shudder that happens when something really creepy happens. i thought some (Chinese) guy on the bus with me was a guy from work, but it wasn't. then about half a minute later, i saw him walking along the side of the road, and let me add, i have never once seen him anywhere outside of the office.
well, so, any ideas about how to make money off of this, or save AIDS orphans or the rainforest or bring about world peace? i'm thinking and thinking, but dont worry i won't quit my day job. not til august at least.
i had a recurrence of it today, which is why it's on my mind- i hadn't even noticed that i had lost it in the hustle and bustle of getting grown-up. then whammo, on the busride between qianmen and tiantan, while i was worrying that the busdriver had just announced that we wouldn't be making the usual stops, the universe hit me on the back of the head.
it used to happen to me all the time that i would just be walking somewhere, or driving along, and pass someone, or catch a glimpse of a person in the corner of my eye, and think that i recognized that person as my friend, some teacher, so-and-so. then i'd get a second look and it would turn out that it was not that person that i had thought it was. then maybe 10-20 seconds later, after i had walked a ways further or turned a corner or walked into a building, i would encounter just that very person that i thought i had just seen. seems like strange coincidence, i know, nothing to be excited about, if it weren't for the frequency at which it happened. in fact sometime it would happen three times in one day. just to be sure, i asked around, and people mostly said that this doesn't really happen to them.
this morning's incident was more of the same. the mental processing of it was a little muddled, because in china i am always thinking i see people i know (mostly whenever i see a white person i always think that they look like someone i've seen before) but i got the same instantaneous full-body shudder that happens when something really creepy happens. i thought some (Chinese) guy on the bus with me was a guy from work, but it wasn't. then about half a minute later, i saw him walking along the side of the road, and let me add, i have never once seen him anywhere outside of the office.
well, so, any ideas about how to make money off of this, or save AIDS orphans or the rainforest or bring about world peace? i'm thinking and thinking, but dont worry i won't quit my day job. not til august at least.
posted by Mandie at 11:21 AM
2 Comments:
sounds like something you need to focus on. train at. like young heroes in comic books do just starting out. maybe, just maybe, your "spidersense" ability will turn out to be like a radar for good people in the world.
or proof we live in the matrix afterall. hmmm...
btw, how are ya, fellow carrot top? st pattys day treat you good? one things for sure, it was not nearly as interesting as last years.
-who else, irish mike.
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