> >>For some reason, I was really curious about this duck. Now I know where > he was going. Victor<< > > Where was the duck going going Victor? Makes me think about Tony Soprano & > his ducks...but I digress...
I think now that it was really a premonition that I should leave this place(job) and sail off on my own..."sail right out of here" because for some funny reason, it really did make a big impression on me at the time, but I didn't have a clue as to why...I only knew that something about this duck really struck me and seemed unusual. This isn't the first time I have had a weird bird experience. Two years ago I was warned by a bird that my dog was going to be hit by a car. I was sitting on in the backyard with my then roommates, drinking some beers and reading, talking and suddenly this bird came out of nowhere and just slammed into my chair. The bird lay still stunned and did not move. I found a little twig and tried lightly poking the bird and he did not respond. He must have lain, not moving, for over a whole minute, which seemed like a long time. Then he suddenly got up and flew off into the sky, disappearing into the heavens. That night my dog Andy got out and was almost instantly hit by a car. I went outside and found him lying on the street and he did not move. He was still alive but barely. I lifted him up and we put him in a car and my roommate drove to the emergency clinic. He died on the way. I have no doubt in my mind that this bird was trying to let me know what was going happen. I think there are always signs like this if you look for them. I don't think you are necessarily going to know at the time what it means and I don't think that is really the intention( ie. to give you a chance to prevent something from happening) but rather a way of letting you know afterwards that it is okay, that it is all in sync with the universe, and to perhaps make it easier to accept some things that you really want to question why? I guess that brings up the question, are things predestined to happen and I think in a way that we cannot really comprehend, everything is woven into the web of life, which only seems to be linear to us but in actuality, time is only an illusion, a measurement like length or depth, and has no more real significance in itself than length or depth or distance from one point to another. So if you forget a moment about time, then you are left with all the things that happen to you just existing in the present moment and it is only an "optical" illusion that an event is being "predicted." At the same time, I don't think everything is necessarily carved in stone, or laid out like a train track. I think there is always an infinite number of possibilities, and that people can act in unison with the universe and the fabric of life or they can go completely against it, creating dissonance, such as someone like Mark David Chapman, who shot John Lennon. An act such as this seems to jar all of existence and rip into the fabric of life, changing the world forever. Okay, this is way too philosophical for so early in the morning... Victor
