Years ago I created a blog that mainly contained stories of synchronicities or coincidences that I noticed in or around my life. For a time I was noticing them at such a rate that thought I was closing in on my own death.. but in a sane sort of a way.
I still get them from time to time too. Which is one of the reasons why I decided to start up a blog documenting them again.. because I had a big one happen in such a small way that I wanted to document it.
Sunday morning I’m at the gym and as I’m working out the thought comes to me that I need to get a new book. I was thinking something motivational, maybe Tony Robbins. But this time I couldn’t wait for the book to be delivered through amazon prime(and FYI I don’t like to read on a tablet – I prefer paper) So I needed to go directly to Barnes and Noble to pick up a tangible book, today.
So I texted my wife if to see if she was up for it later on and she was. We didn’t end up going until about 6 O’clock that night. When we arrived my wife took our daughter to the back of the store to the children’s section and I made my way to the psychology/self help shelves. I must have picked up 30 books, read a little on the back and inside, then put them down. Nothing seemed good to me. But my only goal was to leave there with a book and luckily I didn’t feel rushed.
With all the books there, I was a little overwhelmed since I wanted to pick out something “perfect” as basically my entire Sunday has lead up to this point. So, I did what I do in times like this when I need a little help. I asked for help using that still small voice inside. Something to the effect of “How can I find the perfect book within all these books, help me find the perfect book for me.” I almost directly headed to the opposite side of shelving I was looking through. And as I did one book in particular stood out to me. It was titled “BLINK.”
I picked up the book and gave it a good fan through and stopped on Page 49. I looked to see the chapter title on page 48. It read “The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions.” Definitely had my interest, especially because it was the first thing I read in the book.
So I began to read the chapter which talked about how one of the world’s top tennis coaches had the odd ability to know when a player, even one he never met before, would double fault – Yet he didn’t know why he knew it. And was also freakishly accurate with it. What I liked about this was that I have been known, in my own way, of being freakishly accurate with guessing.. But back to the story.
As I’m reading through chapter I get to one line in particular and I didn’t have to read any further to know this was in fact the book I was looking for. The sentence read “It really isn’t any different from the ability of an art expert to look at the Getty Kouros and know, instantly, that it’s a fake.
And the reason why I knew I didn’t need to read anymore was because of my name, John Getty. To be honest I know it might be a popular name, but it didn’t matter to me if the whole entire book was filled with references to the name Getty. I had already made the decision to get the book because of my initial pull I had to pick it up to read.
I even, for a minute or two, tried to talk myself out of buying it because it was on Amazon for much cheaper. Luckily my wife was there to help talk me out of not buying it. I went there with one goal in mind, no pun intended, and that was to leave there with the perfect book. And on that night I can happily say I did.
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