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onto today’s topic: synchronicity ⚡️
one thing i love about college is how common stumbling into someone i know, or perhaps don’t know (yet), is. you unknowingly get closer to those people you happen to see over and over again.
chance encounters are the best way that a relationship naturally grows closer.
some people call this fate, i call it synchronicity.
ever reminisce about a friend or family member and then they miraculously call you up? see the same person repeatedly in different settings? 🤨 those experiences make me feel a connectedness with the world because two related events somehow happened so close together.
obviously, we don’t believe our thinking caused the events, but they still feel related. carl jung coined this phenomenon as synchronicity. it’s not a matter of cause and effect, but rather falling together in time. a type of quality simultaneity. i could start waffling about quantum physics and how that possibly connects, but that would take away from the romantics of this all, wouldn’t it?
maybe i’ll save the nerd spiel for another post. 🤓
this quote artfully describes the feeling of interpersonal synchronicity:
“when we are aware of the abundance of life, synchronous events unfold in the continuum of time; love brings together what needs to be brought together.”
to explain, once we become in tune with the present, we naturally open ourselves up to realize this synchronicity — these chance encounters and magically connecting with someone — and enable relationships to blossom. 🪷 turns out, research has indicated that mindfulness (the awareness that arises by intentionally focusing on the present moment without judgment) influences synchronicity and actually improves the relationships between two people (source).
when those chance encounters start feeling meaningfully intertwined, that mental realization in and of itself draws people closer together. acknowledge those encounters and draw out a friendship.
flash a smile, invite them to get coffee, and let life gift you with serendipitous synchronicity. it’s such a nice feeling.
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