There Are Many Things That Will Get You Labeled "Crazy!"

As I have been somewhat exploring over the past few weeks, I grew up in a family where mental and emotional health and well-being wasn't really a thing.

But it was an existence that sometimes felt a bit like navigating a mine field... at least in the sense that one had to step very carefully to make sure one was not labeled as "crazy."

The whole idea is a pretty funny one... now that I can look back across the decades with (hopefully!) a more educated and informed perspective. We humans are incredibly inconsistent, in terms of what we consider "sane" and "crazy."

While I am definitely a spiritual person today, the irony of the fact that it is generally acceptable to worship an invisible diety in the sky that nobody's ever seen but believing that (for example) a tree has it's own spirit gets you looked at as nuts is not lost on me.

Beliefs, I suppose, are OK as long as they serve an authorized individual's purpose?

I was by no means a "normal" kid. I "saw" things, and I "felt" things that others didn't seem to, and sometimes I would catch glimpses of what would happen at some future point in time.

Unlike in the movies, these were not things that happened reliably, or with any great amount of detail... except for once in a great while, and typically when I neither wanted or expected it.

For example, many years ago I remember telling my friend Amy from Boston that I had a really bad feeling about her trip to California, but I couldn't tell her why. A few days before she was scheduled to leave, the uncle she was off to visit fell and broke his leg, so she ended up postponing her trip.

Amy had been booked on American Airlines flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, on September 11th, 2001...

Once, while I was living in Texas, I was perusing an old second-hand shop in the warehouse district just north of downtown San Antonio. It was an interesting mishmash of stuff, overseen by a retired typesetter who'd been made redundant by digital publishing.

While looking through a room full of old books, I suddenly was filled with a sense of absolute dread. Along with it, it was as if an invisible hand was urging me to leave, NOW!

And so, I left... in a hurry; got in my car and drove away... and back to Austin.

The following day it was in the news that the shopkeeper had been shot and killed by robber/drug addicts in a failed robbery, likely minutes after I left.

I was back in my native Denmark during the summer of 2002, mostly just to relax, but also to do some work for an organization I was part of the board of directors for.

I was due to go to a board meeting I really didn't want to go to, and found myself really wishing that I didn't have to go.

But I dutifully got on the train at the station near my auntie's house, for the +/- 70 minute train trip to central Copenhagen... all the time just dreading this stupid meeting.

We got about 40 minutes into the trip when the train stopped, and the conductor announced that there would be "a short delay."

The short delay turned into 30 minutes, after which the train crept into the next station along the line... where everyone was asked to get off the train. There was an announcement playing on a loop every minute, saying that all trains in greater Copenhagen were now stopped because the computer guidance system had mysteriously crashed.

And so, I got my wish and missed the meeting... with a perfectly legitimate excuse.

Of course, these could all be perfectly random events to which I am assigning meaning that simply isn't there.

But then again, maybe not...

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great remainder of your week!

How about YOU? Have you ever had any "odd" or precognitive experiences? Every experienced something that just couldn't be logically explained? Leave a comment if you feel so inclined — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!

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