Coincidence or Premonition?
Personally I don’t believe there are any coincidences in life, but that’s not the purpose of this post and I’m not about to argue beliefs here
The things I scribbled in one of mom's books This is just something I wanted to share with any readers of this site when I was going through some of my mom's things a while back.
I remember as a kid always getting in trouble of sorts for being a bit mischievous in various things, one of which was seemingly a regular occurrence, that of taking a pen or pencil and adding my own content to her books on any blank pages I could find! :-o I did it rather frequently and I guess I never learned my lesson or maybe my mom didn’t want to stifle my creative talents. ;) Anyway even before finding this I had a recollection of writing some words in some book at some period in time, those words being “cotten candy” As it happens when going through some boxes of books a few months ago I came across it again and for reasons to be explained in a minute I felt to post it here and let readers ponder if it was a sign of things to come. Here’s a scan of the page. I will have to tkae a guess as to what age I was when doing this, guessing around at least 8 years of age as the writing is in cursive and It wasn’t until the third grade I think that we started using cursive writing. Could be a year or two later as it’s not to bad but still looks like early stages of cursive. Not so important what age really but suffice it to say I was young. Appears I didn’t know the correct spelling of cotton, but its what I was meaning to write as there is a drawing of it below the word.
"a premonition of things to come?"
Here’s a closeup of the page and rotated to see the words.
Ok so what’s so important about a kid writing a drawing about cotton candy in a book at a young age. Well as said earlier it could be coincidence I guess but I do have a remembrance of writing it. maybe at the time I had had some cotton candy somewhere or wanted some! Anyway to get to the point, when I met Alison online her screen name was Candyfloss. I hadn’t a clue what it meant until I asked her and as it turns out candyfloss if the British word for, you guess it, our American cotton candy!!
Now when we found this book when going through the boxes I showed it to Alison and of course we saw it as something more than a coincidence. Destiny and fate was before me from an early age! and though I remembered writing it I was sort of gobsmacked to see the drawing beside the words, scribble is more 
like it I guess, could be some extra terrestrial or just some random curves and lines. But it struck me instantly that it reminded me of a map of Cyprus! Ok its not quite exactly proportionate, but in a cruse way it resembles the outline of the country that Candyfloss was living in when I met her!!! I admit it could be anything really, but still to this minute I see it as Cyprus and another sign that this was meant to be. Just for the records, here’s the outline of Cyprus
Map of Cyprus
yes granted it is very disproportionate, but still the basic shape is there to me and it struck me from seeing it that it looked like Cyprus, even a boy’s crude drawing.
Judge how you will whether its coincidence or a signs of my my future, but I always knew there was something out there I was supposed to do or someone to meet, and until I met Alison that feeling was always with me! Now I know why and what it all meant, whether anyone else believes it or not, I do! :)
Love you Mrs G xxx
I believe it I felt a lot of things throughout my life and a lot of them things didnt become so clear until years later , Love you to Chester .
Meant to comment when this hit my reader the other day, but…well, long story.
I’ve had many odd things happen to me, strange coincidences. What really gets me is when the TV is on behind me while I’m reading a book or on the computer and at the same instance a word is spoken on the tube, I’ll get to it in the text. It happens so often, I’ve almost come to expect it.
Just yesterday I was reading an article about Catholicism and I read the word “purgatory”. At the exact same time, I heard the word used on some TV show, referring to a cop who was in the doghouse for some reason. Anyway….those are probably “just” coincidences.
Speaking of candy floss, I found out about the word when I took elle to a mall in Denton and they were selling the stuff. She once emailed me and asked if I thought she should send me some “clotted cream”–would it melt?– and the first thing I thought of was sour milk. Gag. She did send the candy and it was delicious. The name, though, is still a bit off-putting.
Not earth-shaking, but I once told elle that I loved sweets so much as a child, I used to get up after everyone was asleep and sneak a few teaspoons of sugar out of the bowl. She said she did the same thing! I’m sure a lot of other kids did it too, so….
This post is a great one, sure enjoyed it. I do believe in destiny though, and it sounds like you two were destined to be together.
Love to you both!
Sorry I just saw the reply Mike, I usually get notified of any replies but something must have changed, I’ll have to check it out. Anyway thanks for all your posts and replies, we do appreciate it.
Funny you should mention about hearing something on TV while reading about it or talking about it, I’ve had the same thing happen many times myself. Guess we’ll never know for sure with our feeble human minds, but I imagine there are a lot of abilities we have but aren’t aware of, Esp and all that jazz.
I recall one evening not so long after meeting Alison that I was sitting here at the PC and probably either writing a mail to Alison or just passing the time until she woke up and was starting her day. Anyway I was sitting here and of course Mom was here then and always had the TV going watching something, and my ears perked up when I heard the names Gretchen and Nico over the TV, they were the characters in the show or someone talking about them! As you probably know of course that those are our past spouses’ names! Nicos was Alison’s husband but she told me Nico is basically similar.
I remember another time , again not long from our meeting that we had been talking about Santorini, a Greek island and low and behold that evening I happened to look up at the tv just as a James Bond movie was coming on and I recognized the scenery as looking like Santorini! I looked online and sure enough the scene was filmed there. really seems unlikely that words/places like “purgatory” or “Santorini” would just happen to occur coincidentally, but how are we to know really. As Shakespeare put it: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
thanks again Mike , good to see ya!