We tend to forget rapidly or dismiss things that don´t fit into our mental paradigm
When I was young, I used to smoke a lot of cigarettes. I got the money from my parents and from some eventual, occasional work.
That night, at the middle of the week, my cousin and I were listening to music as always did till late hours. Drinking coffee or yerba mate. Then we ran out of cigarettes, a tragedy then because we were already tobacco addicts at that time.
We had no money, not a penny. I couldn´t wake up my father to borrow money for my vice. We moved upside down every book, vase and box trying to find some bucks…but nothing appeared. We were getting frustrated. Then in an impulse I said to my cousin: “Let´s get outside and get the money”…my cousin followed me with and amused expression on his face. Then looking down at the pavement whithin 50mts from my house we found 10 coins. It wasn´t enough…we walked another 50mts to a phone booth, I introduced my hand in the slot where the currency is returned and I found 5 coins. We have 15 coins, the exact quantity we needed to buy a box of cigarettes. We were happy and excited but we never talked again about that.
More recently, after some weeks of running Wanted and Emperor together…
…Years ago I bought an expensive kitchen (cooker, stove) with fancy accessories, a cutting-edge item. It turned out to be shit. The oven didn´t cooked properly the cakes and pies. The hobs rapidly got broken and it was left with only two of them. The last straw was when another hob suddenly stopped working. I checked it out, it was destroyed beyond repaired. So, my wife and I decided to search new kitchens models on the web, this time we would buy a classic model.
2 days passed, too many options and prices, over-analysis paralysis. Meanwhile I tried to revive that fuckin’ hob (cleaning it, dismounting and mounting) cause it wasn’t comfortable cooking with one left. Nothing worked out, I gave up.
The 4rth day when I was almost ready to buy a new model from a shopping web page I had an impulse to switch this hob on. This time time the hob lit up as if it never had been broken.
25 years ago I had no model to fit this event into. I hadn´t read about Jung or any self help book yet. Now I think that is very possible that certain things can happen when the subconscious starts to clear up.
Yes, there is the possibility that they were synchronicities or just amazing coincidences.
P.S. i´m not a scrooge, so i´ll buy a new kitchen anyway.