pepsiman
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- Joined
- Feb 4, 2009
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- Reason
- Lost a loved one
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- NY
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- Latham
I'm putting this out here because it's a big part of what keeps me going.
I'm a very spiritual person, not religious, that just doesn't resonate with me in any meaningful way. I do however believe in deep connections that go way beyond our perceived reality. Many, many things have happened in my life that truly cannot be explained and I just can't believe they are all just chance. I'll start with when Liz and I met.
Liz was the college roommate/best friend of the woman who would later become the wife of one of my best friends. Cathy (Liz's roommate) invited Liz up to her summer cabin for a weeks vacation a couple of years after they graduated (it was admittedly an attempted matchmaking on Cathy's part). I was invited down to the cabin for a beer the day Liz arrived in town (neither of us knew about the matchmaking part). The moment I saw Liz, I, 1. had some sort of deep recognition, like we already knew each other intimately, although I had never before seen her or even a picture of her. and 2. Knew for FACT that this was the woman I was going to marry. Actually getting together took another couple of years.
Later, after we had moved in together and were planning on getting married, we were having a little party with a couple of her friends from school (she was in grad school at the time) and the subject of how we had met came up. Liz proceeded to tell them how she knew I was the one she was going to marry the moment we met. Of course she added, that at the time, she really wasn't all that impressed with me and couldn't imagine why she would have had that thought. Now Liz wasn't spiritual. She was going to grad school for philosophy and really didn't have any spiritual beliefs. Nevertheless, when we talked about it later there was no denying how well both of our experiences at that first meeting meshed.
If anybody's interested, I'll expound later on what she told me was the one thing that actually convinced her to marry me.
Dick
I'm a very spiritual person, not religious, that just doesn't resonate with me in any meaningful way. I do however believe in deep connections that go way beyond our perceived reality. Many, many things have happened in my life that truly cannot be explained and I just can't believe they are all just chance. I'll start with when Liz and I met.
Liz was the college roommate/best friend of the woman who would later become the wife of one of my best friends. Cathy (Liz's roommate) invited Liz up to her summer cabin for a weeks vacation a couple of years after they graduated (it was admittedly an attempted matchmaking on Cathy's part). I was invited down to the cabin for a beer the day Liz arrived in town (neither of us knew about the matchmaking part). The moment I saw Liz, I, 1. had some sort of deep recognition, like we already knew each other intimately, although I had never before seen her or even a picture of her. and 2. Knew for FACT that this was the woman I was going to marry. Actually getting together took another couple of years.
Later, after we had moved in together and were planning on getting married, we were having a little party with a couple of her friends from school (she was in grad school at the time) and the subject of how we had met came up. Liz proceeded to tell them how she knew I was the one she was going to marry the moment we met. Of course she added, that at the time, she really wasn't all that impressed with me and couldn't imagine why she would have had that thought. Now Liz wasn't spiritual. She was going to grad school for philosophy and really didn't have any spiritual beliefs. Nevertheless, when we talked about it later there was no denying how well both of our experiences at that first meeting meshed.
If anybody's interested, I'll expound later on what she told me was the one thing that actually convinced her to marry me.
Dick