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LINKS TO FOREVER
Bang on right. Everything counts, the negatives as well as the positives, each thoughyt each action creating neural energy that creates both the next moment and the future.
Everything we do or say of another is a link to the next moment and the future - even future lives - for good or ill. We are born to the people to whom we have links from the past, having energy to resolve with them, both negative and positive. Those links from the past generate our thoughts, the people we meet and the coincidences of life.
posted by
psi-kick
on April 2, 2003 at 7:44 AM
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Hey, Me Too!
When I was in kindergarten, my school building was next door to a local school for deaf children. They experimented with mainstreaming the deaf kids in our kindergarten, and some of the teachers from the deaf school came and taught our class some signs. Twenty years later, I started attending a new church where there was a large deaf population. I bumped into one of the deaf ladies in the hallway and apologized in sign language. She freaked out, and dragged me over to the interpreter's area, and from then on the whole deaf community was my friend. They wanted me to sit with them, translate for them, come to their homes for dinner. It was really wonderful. And what's funny is, I am not anything like fluent. I rely a lot on finger-spelling and the sign for "slow" (coupled with a helpless and bewildered look). But my interest in their language and culture sparked friendships that have lasted despite the fact that I now live 800 miles from there. And, like you, I have run into people in grocery stores or airports who needed help. That's a great feeling, being able to help someone!
posted by
editormum
on April 2, 2003 at 6:54 AM
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I Agree 100%
I feel exactly the same. I can't think of things right off hand, but I know I've had certain things happen when I'd look back and think, "Hey, this is neat!"
Oh wait! I do remember one thing: learning sign language! When I was in the third grade, my homeroom class was directly above the "special ed" classroom. I remember looking inside and teaching myself the manual alphabet. Years later, after I had graduated college, I was in some CA airport using one of their computer terminals. A woman walks up to me, taps me on the shoulder, and signs to me. Somehow I just knew she was asking if I was deaf. (She probably thought the computer I was using was a TTY) I shook my head, no, and decided then and there I'd take ASL classes. I did so and fell deeply in love with a new language and new culture.
posted by
Jemmie211
on April 1, 2003 at 10:26 PM
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