I was in San Francisco yesterday, dropped a dollar bill without noticing, and a smiling boy ran after me and returned it. A few hours later, I sat in a coffee shop in Rockridge (waiting for a Breema class), saw a woman dropping a dollar bill without noticing, and I picked it up and returned it to her.
This was a form of synchronicity. It was a coincidence, and it was meaningful to me.
In which way was it meaningful?
On the surface, it was meaningful since there was a nice symmetry here. I got to be kind to someone in the way someone earlier had been kind to me.
And more significantly, I experienced is as a nod from life and a kind of answer to something that had been on my mind a few days earlier. I have a history of repeatedly finding wallets and credit cards and returning them, and yet not having the reverse happen (for instance, I lost my messenger bag full of things important to me, including a wallet with a good deal of cash, a year ago and it wasn’t returned to me).
It may not be apparent in this story, but the dollar synchronicity was as if life said: There is kindness in life and people. Don’t worry about the apparent asymmetry you noticed earlier. Notice the bigger picture and how much life gives you.
…..
…..
…..
Initial notes…..
- Dollar synchronicity
- dropped a dollar, a boy smilingly returned it to me
- 2-3 hours later, I did the same for a woman in a coffee shop
- prior to this, had thought about how I have returned many wallets + credit cards (most recently a a few days ago) while I haven’t experienced the reverse, and that’s OK