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Hier klikken om te bewerken. What do you know about the future?
What do you want to know about the future? Would you live differently if you knew? Interesting questions. I'm finally living back at "my house" in the east of Amsterdam! The pain is (very slowly) receding, positive emotions climbing. Just last week Saturday, I was at a friend's house, sitting at the dinner table with a bunch of other people. One of them received people's coffee cups and commenced to tell people their future. Half as a joke, I think, half kind of interesting. We heard that exciting things were going to happen in one person's life, another person was going to fall in love with a Pisces, a great change was awaiting yet someone else. I didn't feel like participating. Who knows if I had, I might have heard that something major was about to happen to me... Because only an hour later, I was on my carrier cycle (bakfiets) going home when I lost my balance and was torpedoed off the bike! I crashed to the ground, and the cycle crashed next to me. I lay there a little bit stunned and since then, the questions have repeated themselves. Would it have helped, to have known ahead of time that "something major was about to happen"? Would it have helped to know a while before the hemorrhage what was going to be the case? Would I have lived differently, had I known? We humans SO want to know. This 'looking into coffee cups' is only one way in which we try to find stuff out about the future (which I'd never encountered before). Horoscopes, another. Glaasje draaien (sorry, no translation)... In our "modern world" we maybe don't want to rely on this superstition too much anymore, so we turn instead to medicine, or science in general, or... something to provide solutions and some kind of meaning in this strange world. I haven't done anything in the superstition realm of things, that I know of. I have seen more of my fill of hospitals, doctors, modern medicine. But in the end, does any of this help when you fall off your bike? Would it have helped to have known ahead of time? Have doctors provided the magic solution? Nope. In the end, God was there with me. While laying there stunned, my friend ran to me and was very anxious if I was alright. I was. She dragged the bike up, and the bike was alright. She helped me up, and after I allowed the emotions to come, I got back on the bike and proceeded home. It's the third time I've fallen with the carrier cycle. Although I've really been protected each time, it doesn't get less scary. I'm glad I don't know now if I'll fall again tomorrow. But you know Who's already there?! You guessed it :) |
Mattanja OosterhuisHaving grown up in diverse places on earth, I suppose I've learned to make the best of what comes my way. Such as a hemorrhage. After this bleeding in my head occurred in dec. 2010, my life has come to look different. On my blog I write about some of this. Archives
March 2018
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