Synchronicity and Grief: sometimes things happen that are too precise to be entirely random

Описание: Grief can be so brutal. And sometimes, there are little things that happen that tell us we aren’t in this alone – there is a “more than this,” a mystery. A something. Things happen that are too precise to be entirely random.

We don’t often talk of this stuff. It’s the sort of thing that’s shared surreptitiously. Carefully. With disclaimers and explanations and vows that we don’t actually believe in signs, because we are not that “flaky.”

No one wants to be seen as flaky.

But the reality is, almost everyone has a story of something precise and random happening in their grief that let them know there is something going on here: the well-timed song, the appearance of birds or hearts or sudden messages, things showing up just as we’ve thought to look for them.

I think of these things as deep companions inside grief. They don’t make the pain go away, but they lay down alongside it, making things different, if even for a moment.

Can we talk about these? Can we make it safe for each other to share these occurrences, without having to defend our intelligence first? I’ll go first. Here is a story that happened to me in 2011.

Gifts come in many forms. Days like this one are not so strange as you might think. How about you? Have you had intensely beautiful and well-timed moments in your grief? Share with us in the comments.

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