Why is there a constant reflection. Everywhere. The ripples, and a message bouncing back so strong it's impossible to turn it off. Everywhere. Every little ripple. Every connection. The strongest ones always come back, immediately present the minute I go out. The smaller ones are abstract and lead to a future, or are from a past. You can literally see the feed. What somebody else thought, and how they've acted to all the connections you make and made, often through somebody else in a two way mirror replaying them. It is haunting. I didn't ask for this gift or this curse. But it's everywhere. I cannot ignore it. What the hell is it?
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No because it would compromise me.
I will give another two examples. My nephew died, born with a degenerative disease from birth. He relapsed into hospital. The week he was on life support, beginning of the week. I am walking my dog. A woman and her two kids were having a conversation about their family member dying of organ failure. It was a conversation nobody should hear. Because I knew then despite what we'd been told promises he will be fine, it was over. I observed my other sister talking to my other nephews explaining it. She of course lived 100s of miles away. I went home phoned my mum, and that night my sister phoned to tell her the worst.
2 weeks before my dog died. I met a distant acquaintance, a friend of somebody I had briefly encounteted, whose dog also died suddenly from cancer. He explained how he got a new dog, the lost, and how his family attended. My dog got ill so quick, it was old, but you'd never know if not for the cancer, you'd never guess without something else. My family were visiting me, I was babysitting that week, the week the dog went, nothing I could do, it couldn't hold down food or water, it was dying infront of me, I rushed it into the vets, but I had to put it down, had too. Family there supporting. The same nephew got the same dog as this acquaintance about a year later. His choice he lived 100s mile away. No influence apart from I was there that Christmas he got it. I haven't seen that acquaintance since. Saw him only once before. But he stopped me and pet my friendly dog, and talked about the above.
Those are undeniable, but it's everywhere, everytime I step outside of my house. All the time. I see somebody who has lost something, and it oddly was their keys, asking me if I had seen them up the footpath. I get home and an unexpected visitor is waiting for me, they didn't think to call. It wouldn't have mattered I didn't take my phone.
But it's an observation that hits you with blinding clarity. So distinct it is unmissable and unmistakable because somehow it is connected. There is nothing you can do apart from rationalise. It sadly wont change anything. It is a mirror. A reflection and a ripple. It somehow is linear. But if I interacted with it. It of course leads somewhere else. The next thing could be that new interaction, connecting.