Synchronicity

When viewed from a hyperfocal distance, most of the time it is very difficult to notice that all of life’s dots are connected. We are often so focused on the details of an event that we fail to notice of other things happening around us. However, if we just take a step backward from an event and look around us, we begin to notice that things are connected. Some can argue that everything is connected.

Three years ago my wife Lori left me. I commented the other day that this single event completely rocked my world. At the time it happened, Lori leaving me looked like the death of my life. In reality it was the very beginning of the birth of a new me, a truer me. A me who was much more in tune with the artist inside of me and much less afraid of what the rest of the world thought of that artist. It took 3 years, but eventually I stopped focusing on what I lost and started to focus on what I gained. The night before I returned home from a 4 day vacation at my parents to find the note on my desk informing me that Lori left, I got a reply from an email that I had sent out 2 years earlier. The email was the response to an one inquiring with a woman if she would like to model for me. It took her 2 years to reply to the email and when I later asked her about that in person she said the timing was not right to reply until she did so. If we had met 2 years earlier, she would not have had the impact that she had on my life. Instead she was the one who helped me begin doing the major un-peeling of the onion. The timing could not have been more perfect.

Make time to take a step back, open your eyes and begin to notice that nothing happens by accident.