Reaching Out

Errr….I have been busy lately. Work, stuff, some other stuff, more work and that thing I had to do. We are also intensely searching for a house. We made a bid on one a few days ago and we are hopping it goes well. I know there is a lot more stuff I should be catching you up on, but no. It’s time for something different for a change.

I seem to experience a very strange phenomenon when it comes to people I know or have known. It happens with friends, family and the occasional acquaintance. I don’t have a word for it or an explanation. It is kind of like a “small world huh” kind of thing, but more than that. So, here is what happens. When I have known someone or met someone that leaves an impact or impression on me, I tend to not forget them. This is a feet in and of its self as I tend to forget everything. They are usually people I have known for several years or months. The first thing that happens is the person leaves. This seems to happen a lot. After the person is gone I start over analyzing their departure. It seems to run through my head over and over again and almost driving me insane. I tend to say things like “I wonder what so and so is doing?” or “Whatever happened to so and so?” Sometimes I try and reach out, but usually it’s too late and I don’t have valid contact information anymore. Time passes on with me obsessing about what happened to the person and then it kind of tapers off. Now is when the said phenomenon usually kicks in. I go through a spell of intense questioning and obsessing about the whereabouts and happenings of this person. It is almost always shortly after this, that this bizarre phenomenon tends to happen. I will get a phone call out of the blue. I will run into the person in a store or mall. I will see them on the news or read about them in the paper. It is a bunch of other weird things like this. Eventually my over analyzing, extreme curiosity and anxiety about this person will lead to a chance encounter or contact. It is like there is some thread or unseen connection that I put on the person and eventually it leads to me getting back in touch with the person. I don’t know if it is me or some higher power trying to ease my trouble mind. We are all connected, I think, in more ways than we know and there is a system more complex than we could ever comprehend, that shapes our lives.

One such resent example of this happened with my friend Baren (He probably does not want me to disclose his real name at this time). We parted on bad terms and he left to join the military. Several attempts to contact him and nothing came of it. I wonder and wonder what happened to him and then, BAM, the phenomenon. I finally get back in touch with him. I now await the physical contact, as he lives some distance from me, I am not sure when this will be. So now you know about this strange phenomenon that happens when I loose touch with people. This is also something to think about when you are like “He never calls or e-mails. He probably isn’t even thinking about me.”

That is all hippies. Sorry for the wait.

- Dr. Worm

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