There have been moments in my life where I’ve had to wonder about my psychic abilities. Okay, I don’t actually believe that I do have psychic abilities, but there have been several unexplainable moments in my life.
In college, I took a photography class with my good friend, Joe. One day, as we sat down in class, I got a strange feeling and said, “I wonder if Teresa would give us a pop quiz today.” Teresa was our teacher, and yes! We had pop quizzes in photography class! There’s just something fundamentally (to use a much overused term from the current presidential election) wrong with that. Sadly, we did indeed have a pop quiz that day.
This kept happening! Every time I would get that feeling and mentioned to Joe that I wondered if we could have a pop quiz, she would give us one! It got to the point where the other classmates would look at me before class started to hear our conversation and/or see if I was doing any last-minute cramming.
Over the past few days, I’ve had a couple of more experiences to give as examples. On Sunday, I was playing Tri-Ominos with my mom. This is a game I haven’t played since I was probably in middle school. It’s like dominoes, but with triangle pieces instead of rectangles and three numbers instead of two. I was out of pieces that I could play from my hand, so I had to draw. Before I went to draw, I was imagining the numbers that I would need to get a piece I could play. My brain settled on a piece that would finish out a hexagon. I would need a piece with the perfect three numbers in the perfect order on the tile to finish it. I repeated these numbers in my head for a just a second and reached down and picked up….the tile I had been imagining! I was amazed, as there were several left to choose from!
Example No. 2: Sometimes when I get on the scale each week, I merely pray to have a loss of any kind no matter how small. Last week, I weighed in at 186.3. Today, I just really wanted to be in the 184′s again. So, I repeated 184, 184, 184 in my head as I stepped on the scale. And what was my weight? 184.0 exactly!
Example No. 3: A week ago this past Friday, my boss gave us the best news that she could possibly have ever given us. There is a certain kind of project that we all absolutely despise. When one such project comes into our department, we all cringe, our hearts sink, our stomachs twist, and we pretty much want to run. On this day a week ago, she informed us that we would never, ever have to do this kind of project again and that this statement came from the higher-ups. I was skeptical at first and even expressed that skepticism, but her response was “Oh no, I’m not kidding. Never again!” Well, as I went into work today, I started to feel some anxiety (even more than usual) and my mind drifted to this kind of project. I immediately shut down that internal fear, thinking, “No way. She said we’d never get those again. I don’t have to worry about that anymore.” Um, yeah. I checked out our job log as I went into the department today and what was on it? FOUR of these projects. FOUR! But, oh yeah, this is just a special exception. But how did I know?
I’m telling you, it’s weird. It’s too bad I can’t control this power to, you know, win the lottery or something.
