Sorry for the lack of vlog this week, but I'm still writing. If you tape a picture of me to the corner of your screen and read this, then it's like I'm vlogging.
This morning I had a premonition. I used to dismiss these things as coincidence but I just can't ignore it anymore. Let me go back to the last significant one I can remember.
When I graduated college I got a new car. The first weekend I had it, I went on my fraternities annual camping trip. While driving on the highway, I suddenly thought, "I hope a rock doesn't nick my new windshield" This is not something I remember ever thinking about any other time in any other car, yet 10 seconds later...THOK! There was a nick in my windshield. Good thing I hadn't suddenly hoped to not be hit by a meteor.
When I'm on the subway, though I'm aware I need to stand up and get off in ten seconds, I don't spend a lot of time preparing for it. Some people will get right in front of the door after the previous stop like they aren't going to make it off in time if they're not ready. I don't do that. I sit or stand and play Klondike on my ipod until the doors are sliding open and I go. This morning, there was a woman and her daughter standing next to me on the crowded 6 train. While clicking my ipod I suddenly had the idea that this woman was going to let me know she needed to get off so I could get out of her way, as I was making no movement to with another 30 seconds or so before arrival at 23rd street. As soon as the thought occurred, the woman tapped my arm and said "We're getting off at the next stop." I told her so was I.
This has never happened to me before in over a year in the city. I've never had a preemptive warning that I was going to need to move, and I never had a spontaneous thought that it was going to happen. This can't be coincidence.
Time to go find one of those alternate reality books that explains why all this happens.
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Andy, that's a great moment, but I don't think it's some zen experience that happened. Sometimes, unconsciously, we read body language and we can tell what someone is going to say or do. Like if the woman kept thinking in her head, "I need to tell this guy we are exiting soon," she may have done things like tried to make eye contact with you or got closer to the door and you picked up on what she was doing. Great job! Keep doing it!
Oh, it's Michael Newman, but my blog is soooo private!
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