Mana Moonlight
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Have you ever experienced a freaky coincidence? Maybe one that made you wonder if we really are in some sort of Truman Show kind of thing? You may have already experienced a synchronicity event. Synchronicity is a concept first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl G. Jung "to describe circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection."
I'll start with mine.
In my senior year of highschool, I made a friend with a poet. It was sort of extracurricular thing where every student was told to gather in this hall where we then make groups based on which clubs we were in. Due to a bureaucratic mistake, I was put in the club for students who weren't assigned to a club, an outcast club if you could call it that. So we all just sat in a circle staring into nothing and twiddling our thumbs in dead silence. At the time I was a very quiet kid, never one to pull stunts and such, especially not strike up small talk with strangers, but for some godforsaken reason, I was suddenly overcome with the thought of books and writing and I knew I had to talk about books and writing. So I did. And to my surprise, the girl sitting across me responded, also expressing an interest/love for books. At the end of the day I showed her one of the drafts of my stories, and she showed me some of her poems. That was that.
Here's where the Synchronicity event comes in. It's the final days of high school and I realised I didn't have her number. I still wanted to talk to her about writing. But the bell has rung a long time ago and most students have already went back home. I just stayed at the library and tried to read, but this ended up being fruitless, couldn't stop thinking how I would never see her again, so I just sighed and wrote my number on a piece of paper and left the library, idiotically hoping for the infinitesimally small chance of stumbling onto her along the way. And wouldn't you know it, I did stumble onto her. I stepped out the library and there she was, passing by, on the way to the nearby cafe.
Of course, the evidence for synchronicity is shaky at best. It's almost impossible to scientifically prove it. Still, even if I don't truly believe in it, I still find it endlessly fascinating. Extends to most conspiracy theories that sound interesting but end up unproven or are just fundamentally impossible to prove.
I'll start with mine.
In my senior year of highschool, I made a friend with a poet. It was sort of extracurricular thing where every student was told to gather in this hall where we then make groups based on which clubs we were in. Due to a bureaucratic mistake, I was put in the club for students who weren't assigned to a club, an outcast club if you could call it that. So we all just sat in a circle staring into nothing and twiddling our thumbs in dead silence. At the time I was a very quiet kid, never one to pull stunts and such, especially not strike up small talk with strangers, but for some godforsaken reason, I was suddenly overcome with the thought of books and writing and I knew I had to talk about books and writing. So I did. And to my surprise, the girl sitting across me responded, also expressing an interest/love for books. At the end of the day I showed her one of the drafts of my stories, and she showed me some of her poems. That was that.
Here's where the Synchronicity event comes in. It's the final days of high school and I realised I didn't have her number. I still wanted to talk to her about writing. But the bell has rung a long time ago and most students have already went back home. I just stayed at the library and tried to read, but this ended up being fruitless, couldn't stop thinking how I would never see her again, so I just sighed and wrote my number on a piece of paper and left the library, idiotically hoping for the infinitesimally small chance of stumbling onto her along the way. And wouldn't you know it, I did stumble onto her. I stepped out the library and there she was, passing by, on the way to the nearby cafe.
Of course, the evidence for synchronicity is shaky at best. It's almost impossible to scientifically prove it. Still, even if I don't truly believe in it, I still find it endlessly fascinating. Extends to most conspiracy theories that sound interesting but end up unproven or are just fundamentally impossible to prove.