Outside the Box...like waaaaaay..

Hey.

I was chatting to this strange guy in the street the other day when he stopped and asked me about some of the healthfood i'd bought in shop.

He explained his beliefs in the universe showing us signs to direct us about our lives... For him these things can be anything from a fire engine passing you to a person walking out of a shop as you try to walk in...everything has meaning and can be interpreted your benifit if you pay attention.

I found his theory interesting, and that is a thread perhaps all in itself, but what really got me about this guy was that he was completely outside my realm of understanding, and i say that in an honest way. To live his life %100 by such signs is to me amazing and also rather scary....I mean, he can't walk into shops if someone walks out at the same time!!

I'm guessing he thought me equally as odd.

What say you all> mMet anyone like this....maybe you identify with him?

DO YOU SEE THE SIGNS!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I think that this guy is right. If you subscribe to the belief that everything happens for a reason, you can relate to the concept quite easily. I think most people dont put very much thought into it.

I'm a big believer in omens personally, so I do assess everyday things to have larger meanings.

I know a lot of people like that too.

Fair play, but to the point where you can't go into a shop or someones house if you are met by another person walking out?

Or if a kid in wheelchair is coming towards you in the street it means something will cripple you in some way if you keep walking that way.

A little extreme I think...but i'm no stranger to omens...hell i've watched all 3 of them.

That is a famous philosophy. Even the best seller THE ALCHEMIST by paulo coelho talks about it. Omens show you the way.

But imagine if everyone gave themselves to this belief - physically disabled people wouldn't be able to go anywhere without being walked away from - it would be horrible. Also, I've seen things that have caused me a great deal of trauma - I've never told anyone, but I think I could take what I saw as a sign that something terrible would happen in my life if I walked on, I did anyway and as yet, nothing major has happened. I don't know . . .

I think that there are so many ways to interpret each individual sign, I dont think that just because you see a kid in a wheel chair it means that you're going to end up in a wheel chair, or even that the product of you seeing that has anything to do with walking at all, nor that if someone is walking out a door that means you shouldnt walk in.

Seeing a kid in a wheel chair going down the street may affect you positively in making you think of how blessed you are, taking things for granted. Passing someone leaving a building while you're walking in could symbolize common courtesy (for instance if you open the door for them or if they open it for you, if you smile at them you could make their day, they could make yours better by smiling at you).

By recognizing that everything is interwoven and that you see who you see to impact them positively helps us all live a better life in my opinion. I try to make everyone's day better than it would have been had they not talked to me. I try to teach whatever I can and I try to learn whatever I can from each individual.

You are all raising interesting points, but if i may, in reference to Kaitlins post, talk some more about this guy, whose name is Organic Jim by the way.

I think kaitlin you are talking more about the personal meanings we assign to events and people, which is of course natural. In Jims case though he believes that the meanings he attaches to everyday events and objects, are universal and all encompassing...even though he has shared with me storied which explain how he came about a certain sybolic meaning...and they are usually misfortunate tales.

For example, his is very into Chinese Astrology, and within that he is a Fire sign. So one night he is looking for a place to sleep and a fire engine blazes past him and he doesn't follow it and gets into a fight....he uses the negative experience of the fight to justify his theory that because he is a fire sign he should have followed his symbol for fire.

Now I can see a sense in this...but I've walked with him a little and he has hundreds of these signs...and some of them are conflicting...which basically means he can barely get from A to B without a total gauntlet of direction changes which seem to yield no benifits.

I don't believe there is a higher power at work here as he never gets anything done and his symbology gets him nowhere in life that he wants to go.....there is nothing divine about it.

Though I can't deny the possibility of snycronicity...we all feel it like a hearbeat sometimes...the beat of life.....dum dum...dumd dum...dee dee

I believe in some signs but I'm not obsessed with them. One time I was feeling really bad when a song one of my friends sent me the lyrics to came on the radio as I was thinking of him. Since he's the type of person who makes me feel good about myself the timing of the song made me feel as if things would work out as best as could.