You Wouldn’t Know A Good Synchronicity If It Smacked You In The Face

Have you heard that term, synchronicity?

I had heard the term and heard about the idea of synchronicities in the universe for years, but it took a long time for me to really get it. If you are not familiar with this, synchronicities are coincidences that turn out to have meaning. I see them as the universe stitching together a series of events that can benefit you.

The problem is that so many of them don’t get noticed. In fact, the more of these events I recognize happening to me, the more overwhelming the notion of how many I have missed in the many decades I have been alive becomes.

Part of my morning routine is to get a cup of coffee, sit on our comfy couch next to the window to the backyard, and look out at nature’s morning show. I’ll gaze at a bird flying by, how still the water is in the pool, and how the colors of the sky change from purple to orange and then to blue as the sun rises. What a thing.

Hang on with me for this part, because it bounces around a bit. But there is a point, I promise. One of my pet projects that pulls me is to solve this problem that resonates with me. I have this feeling that there could be a better way for my family to live than in a modestly sized stucco box, with concrete patio and walks surrounding it, and enclosed in a six-foot fence all around. Oh, and we have to whisper if we are entertaining in the backyard so we don’t disturb the neighbors. So yeah, I am trying to figure that out along with navigating my path to spiritual awakening.

Anywho, while I am contemplating all of this, my son Parker sits down on the couch with the laptop cracked open and he is working on a design for his 3D printer that he is just about to kick off. I am staring out the window, thinking about the best way that people like us could live and he is trying to bounce an idea off me for his design.

I was kind of understanding what he was explaining to me and at the same time thinking about a phone call I received a couple of days before. Her name was Michelle and she and her partner live in a combination of a condo in Arizona, multiple fifth wheels around the Western States, and now possibly a boat that she was interested in buying from my yacht brokerage.

At the time of the phone call with Michelle, I just thought “boy, this kind of sounds like a long shot, but let’s see how I can help her”. I hadn’t thought at all about Michelle or our conversation since we had spoken, but I all of a sudden had a realization at that moment while Parker and I sat on the couch.

That’s when I had that holy crap moment and realized the universe had sent me Michelle and I didn’t do anything about it.

How random is it that I am looking at all avenues of creative ways to live and then a woman who is obviously living very creatively is presented to me by a phone call? I just had a conversation with her about boats, hung up the phone, and went along with the usual.

As soon as I realized it, I stood up to get my phone to call her when Parker, snapping me out of my trance to get more help with his project, said to me “Is it clear”? I said, “Are you kidding me, it’s like the clearest it has ever been.” He smiled at my overly enthusiastic answer to his engineering design question and reminded me we were having dueling experiences.

Apparently, I had a strange look on my face that made him ask “What’s going on with you?” I sat down next to him and said that the universe delivered Michelle to me and I ignored it. What a perfect opportunity to learn from another human being.

It was a gift that was delivered to me and I shoved it back under the Christmas tree.

Do you ever wonder if the universe is beating its head against a wall trying to give us exactly what we need when we need it and we are just ignoring it?

Can you imagine the things we could accomplish if we just keep our minds clear enough so that we can recognize when the universe is trying to smack us with a new synchronicity?

I would love to hear about that time you were smacked by the realization the universe was just trying to help you out.