The other day I was talking with Claudia about the incredible odds of having found each other, and how intimately we knew each other, and how perhaps it was fate that had brought us together, but what for, and then she recalled a story she had read as a child about two brothers who had promised to meet each other in the next world, and in order to recognize each other, they agreed upon a *sign*. A coventant for the next life. And so we wondered whether we had met before, in another life, and whether we would meet again, and how we’d recognize each other. We then talked about relatives and friends, and how some of them are special. Maybe it’s just the mother, or your sister, or a friends best friend that somehow touches you in a way that few other people do. You can not meet them for years, but when you meet you feel immediately at home, at ease with yourself and the people arround you. Maybe there’s just not a soulmate, we speculated, but you form part of a larger troupe that moves through time, helping and protecting each other. In every life, you will meet some of them as friends, as relatives, or strangers. Sometimes you will recognize each other, and sometimes you will not. This begged the question: How to recognize members of your troupe? Look for people for whom you feel an unwarranted (and asexual) amount of trust, sympathy, intimacy. I think sexual attraction is important, but that’s not what we were looking for. And we were not looking for family ties or best friends, things that can be explained by a long shared history. What matters is extremely deep friendship on first sight or a parent turned best friend, or an aquaintance from your youth being a constant source of unlooked for joy in your life. We identified two or three candidates in our lives. I must look out for these people and try to break the ice quickly, because I’m usually rather reserved (”playing by the rules of conduct”) such as to miss these opportunities.
Note that I don’t want the above to be construed to be a statement in favor of reincarnation. Reincarnation may exist or it may not, it is a lot easier for me to put things into perspective using this sort of NarrativeLevel. The narrative connects the dots, but the narrative is not the dots. Don’t confuse the finger pointing at the moon with the moon itself. The important part here is identifying people with whom you have (or could have) an extremely deep but unwarranted and asexual relationship. And then do something about it. 😄
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so ist es 😃
– mom 2004-11-24 18:50 UTC