Synchronicity

me having a café crème at the restaurant where Catherine was also eating; a nice couple from India who live in Chicago offered to take my photo after I took theirs with their camera

Because my blog is "Synchronizing" I want to share this story.

I was reading James Redfield's The Celestine Vision last night before sleep (sleep? ha!). On p. 21 he writes "Another synchronicity . . . occurs when we repeatedly see someone we don't know within a short period of time. The odds against such occurrences are tremendous . . ." He goes on to say we should introduce ourselves if that happens. Perhaps there is an important reason we should meet.

So today, I was walking down the tiny rue Servandoni, an obscure, non-touristy street, and I saw a woman walking toward me who sat two tables from me at a restaurant on the Champs-Elysées yesterday, a long way from rue Servandoni. So, because of reading Redfield's suggestion, I introduced myself to her, Catherine from Toronto.

We chatted for a few minutes, two women on a week's vacation traveling alone. I liked her a lot.

I don't know why we were meant to meet, but that it happened right after reading about the occurrence makes me believe we were connected to something bigger than ourselves.

The rest of the day I've been wishing we had made plans to get together later in the week. We'll see, maybe the universe will arrange it.

A different take on this story at Paris Deconstructed.