What’s on your mind?
I’ve long heard that those who are pregnant notice a lot more pregnant people around. The same for those who wear glasses - suddenly it seems like everyone wears them. No, I don’t have any large announcements to share.. but anyone who has been on the roads with me probably has had heard enough about the abundance of Excels on the road
More and more does this concept come true for me; any topic that crosses the mind seems to suddenly come alive in music, movies, conversation. Lyrics, random movie lines, new people and old alike.. the power of active thought seems phenomenal, almost scary and just a little bit magical. A part of me almost wonders whether the thought does more than simply draw the attention to the thought - whether it somehow creates the effect in the world around us. Ofcourse, by now you are crying things like “Ludicrous!” and “Entertain us further with your ridiculousness!”.. but is it really so strange?
What if I saw someone smiling, and that caused me to smile? OK, a smile isn’t an Excel.. but it’s a start. Perhaps if more people drove a purple car, there’d be more smiles!? 
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September 8th, 2010 at 9:20 am
Well, when you consider that everything we perceive is actually all in our heads… doesn’t sound all that ludicrous. Perhaps your car isn’t purple at all…
September 8th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Is it just me or does ‘pregnant people’ sound odd?
September 9th, 2010 at 3:38 am
It’s about time you updated your blog!
September 9th, 2010 at 6:48 am
@Lewis: perhaps that post wasn’t made at all..
@Raissa: maybe so - but there’s a reason for it!
@Katie: yes
September 12th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
YOU make me smile. I laughed out loud about the Excel comment.
September 28th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Strangely enough, when i got my car, i hardly noticed many others. But that’s because it was a new car at the time, and they have only recently started appearing in large numbers.
But it applies to other things with me. I’ll hear about one thing, or read about it, and within days, or sometimes hours, i’ll hear a discussion on the same topic, but apparently with unrelated causes.
The other week i saw a post on someone’s facebook brought about by something in his life and I decided to bring it up with kate in a discussion. The next day, it’s a discussion on The 7PM Project.