Journey #7

“Serendipity.” Isn’t that a wonderful word?   

Just prior to settling down to writing this Journey I had been thinking of a number of people in my life, and I decided to draw for myself an Oracle card as a way to get focus about today’s writing.  That card was titled “Thinking of You.”

Thinking of the people in my life that I am not constantly interacting with, doesn’t happen too often.  It’s one of the effects of having SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory).  When people, places, or memories are not right in front of me, they just don’t exist, which can, to those others, make the person with SDAM seem as if they are uncaring.  Nothing is further than the truth, we care deeply – once we remember. 

When we do remember, it is like a lightbulb going on.  It’s beautiful. It’s like the sun shining through a break in the clouds.   All that hidden caring comes up to the surface, and if we are lucky we can remember certain times.  Of course, that gets even tricker for those folk who also have aphantasia or prosopagnosia – we don’t have pictures in our minds to remind us of you.

What the serendipity of the appearance of this particular oracle card brings for me on the Journey, is to ask that you sit down and think of those you know and love – and those you have known and loved.  Think of the wonderful times you shared, the love and the laughter and if you are so inclined – why not reach out and say hello.  Just because. 

Bring some sunshine into your life and into someone else’s.