My only explanation is that it is astrological.
The reason why tragedies always seem to come at the same time. Like the time last summer the trucker drove into the Indian wedding party the same weekend as the hot air blloon exploded.
Today in church there were many more holy intention prayers than usual. And some very tragic ones. A couple married two weeks, then the wife finds out she only has days left to live. A mother dying while her children watch helplessly.
It was the same for me this weekend. My Aunt Cecelia was diagnosed with breast cancer (luckily she was able to book her surgery for this Tuesday) and my Great Uncle/God Father Jürgen passed away after many years battling a variety of cancers.
“
Mydears,
Ihave to tell you that my beloved husband
JuergenBalzer
hasdeceased on 24thNovember 2007, 11.30p.m.
I’msad and miss him already.
Muchlove
Edith”
Did the moon get a little too full this month?
Things do happen all at once. Perhaps once something big occurs we’re more in tune to anticipate other things happening and consider it coincidental.
Douglas Adams quote swoon time:
If one coincidence can occur, then another coincidence can occur. And if one coincidence happens to occur just after another coincidence, then that is just a coincidence.
Though I do think that energy plays a role as well. Even if we *think* it plays a role, that influences our rationalisation.
And not that this in any way compares to the dark, scary cloud of cancer, but as soon as temperatures dipped below 0, all my chapstick ran out. Like seriously.
(Though I do say they ran out *because* the temperature went down, that’s purely for effect. It’s probably because I bought them all at similar times and used them equally since I’m pretty sure the universe has better things to do than to mess with my lip skin dryness.)
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