Wow !
Last spring I was walking in a park. A short distance ahead of me was a mom and her three-year-old daughter. The little girl was holding on to a string that was attached to a helium balloon.
All of a sudden, a sharp gust of wind took the balloon from the little girl. I braced myself for some screaming and crying.
But, no! As the little girl turned to watch her balloon go skyward, she gleefully shouted out, Wow!
I didn’t realize it at that moment, but that little girl taught me something.
Later that day, I received a phone call from a person with news of an unexpected problem. I felt like responding with Oh no, what should we do But remembering that little girl, I found myself saying, Wow, that’s interesting! How can I help you
One thing’s for sure - life’s always going to keep us off balance with its unexpected problems. That’s a given. What’s not preordained is our response. We can choose to be frustrated or fascinated.
No matter what the situation, a fascinated Wow! will always beat a frustrated Oh, no.
So the next time you experience one of life’s unexpected gusts, remember that little girl and make it a Wow! experience. The Wow! response always works.
That’s pretty positive message. Coincidences are sometimes just coincidences and sometimes they are more. I life lesson being shown to you. Some people might say that’s why we have deja vu. We needed to learn the lesson being shown to use at that moment there’s a concious part of you that maybe you aren’t in touch with that is striving to understand what is happening at that very moment. That’s why it is familiar feeling. It probably has something to do with your life path.
James Redfield had some interesting thoughts on coincidence. Actually that post gave me a bit to think about. Not that the story itself is all that compelling.