Wow...déjà vu... I'm sure that we've met before...and if we haven't... then this is even stranger. Or you're strange...you beautiful weirdo, you :D.
Welcome to chapter 19 of Huli Adventures. It has been a few days that I've been away from the writing desk but on this special Monday I decided to return with something of an esoteric post: my reference points to fate and the synchronicity of life itself.
I was born and raised a Christian and Christians fundamentally believe that God, being the creator and father of all living creation, has a plan for each and every one of us. This is quite a fatalistic point of view to believe that everything that you do is all part of God's plan and that even your own death has a purpose.
Whether you are a religious or not I believe that accepting that there is some sort of higher power that binds us together is a very magical, stress free activity that makes life more magical for all of us. There is no commitment to it unless you are a practicing religious person, other than being more open minded and seeing the world more like a child.
The belief begins with what I call "drawing circles". I am sure that you have heard of people describing moments in their life as "full circle moments". What this means is that events experienced in your past, ie, at the start of your circle return later in your life in the same way. A very simple example is graduating university. When I first came to university mama and papa drove me up in the car with all of my belongings. At the graduation ceremony I was standing there in my gown with the degree in my hand and they stood either side of me: a perfect circle where my life at university had been sealed and it was time to move on.
While drawing circles is a matter of perception: it does give life more beauty because whether you believe in a higher power or not, one cannot deny the sheer beauty and complexity of the world and how bizarre it is to see everything so intricately designed, almost as if someone was orchestrating it.
This thought led me to believe that life was not a line at all with a beginning and an end, but a series of circles connected in a link. If you allow yourself to believe this then you realize that time is not linear at all and the concepts of past, present and future are redundant. Therefore, the past is just as equally important as the future as they co-exist at the same time.
Haha, before you all run away and slam your paws on the desk going: "AYA!!! What does this mean?! Daniel you crazy lunatic! I thought I knew you! -__-" stay with me, it gets even better :D.
It led me to believe that life is like a DVD, and you, your consciousness is the DVD player. We know that life, the DVD, already has an end to it because the full story is stored on the disc and there is only so much information in can store, but we haven't experienced it yet; we are simply experiencing it in a chronological order because that is the way we perceive reality (or how the DVD functions starting the film from 0:00:00). The point is that when people think of yesterday, they think that part of their life is gone forever, but in reality it is still there (just as when you pass the first scene of the DVD and it still remains on the disk). Why is this important? It's important because when you have moments of déjà vu of course the moment feels like it's happened before: you've already lived it. It is not the future that you have relived, it's the idea of the disk skipping slightly or being aware of more information yet to come.
With this knowledge the idea of "having no regrets" is so powerful. If you believe that your life is a circle and not a linear line than you realize that there is nothing to regret because there is no past to regret anything in the first place :D. On a deeper level this also means that what you couldn't accomplish in the present, may have already been accomplished in the future or the past. A beautiful way of explaining this was seen in Cloud Atlas (quickly becoming one of my favourite films) and book (though I haven't read it yet :P). The concept without giving any details away is all about the idea of multiple lives and existence. One of the most touching scenes was when two lovers who died together in the future, had actually experienced an entire life together in the past. The idea is so powerful because it connects strongly with the concept of Christianity and life existing long after death. It tells you that even death has a purpose because the end is not the end, it but the beginning of another journey.
Therefore the idea of coincidences in your life, or synchronicity activity that might be "weird" is just you tickling fate. In my own life I met one of my close friends Oliver when I was seven years old in primary school. Six years later I still knew Oliver in secondary school and it was then that I met his other closest friend, David. What I later found out after a couple of years (when David became one of my closer friends) was that he was my next door neighbour and he had been since I was born and up to meeting Oliver I had never known of his existence. Take that for a mouthful :D. There will be some of you those going: "Well, it's a small world!" but again life is a choice about perception and I choose to drawn that circle. Thus, I believe that these friends are with me in the future, and so they are with me in the present, and fate has a funny way of putting everything in place so we can experience this all together.
I then leave you with this final thought: open your eyes to the possibilities that your life is not all what it seems. The more logical and boring, predictable and dull you make your life out to be, the more you will be stuck into that reality. Yet everything in your life has happened for a reason and that is why I am sharing this with you.
Draw those circles sweetheart, and you will find what you are looking for.
:D Peace. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
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