every meeting has a meaning

 

The day after my birthday (a couple of weeks ago, see a recent post) I had a serendipitous meeting with a woman (a few years younger than my mum) outside the local grocery store within walking distance.

She lives on the same street as my mother used to live before she moved into my dwellings in 2023. And they’d previously met and chatted.

Myself I met this woman prior to that, in 2019/20 just before the pandemic when we started talking at a municipal business owners sustainability meeting we both attended back then.

Also met her son back then, he and his wife had just started an aquaponic large scale farm. —

Unfortunately the combination of growing vegetables and fish farming is so very off-putting and obviously unethical for someone who believes we must stop using, abusing and consuming non-human animals for human purposes.

Especially since growing vegetables with aquaponic measures most certainly can be done w/out involving animals trapped in water tanks. —

That business aside we had a really good chat and I got a ride home in a Tesla (a company I detest with a founder I find a loathsome excuse for a human being, but the car ride was my first time in an electrical vehicle and that was cool).

We never did meet up again after that. And then came the pandemic. And then everything else happened, and my life just got distinctively smaller. (Alongside many others I imagine.)

But that post-birthday Saturday I noticed a woman with a really nice mustard-yellow coat walked past little mum and I when we began lugging home our groceries. The woman then turned around and said ”Hi!” because she saw little mum and then me and thought it was silly not to say hi, and instead just keep walking (like most of us usually do).

We started talking. And it just ’clicked’ somehow. She randomly mentioned that she had just read about a spiritualistic and healing society in Stockholm and would I be interested in going?

Isn’t just a wonderfully weird thing to ask someone you’ve only met once, and that was a few years ago?

Every meeting has a meaning.

As it happens I have attended a few spiritualistic meetings and seances after M’s passing. And some of those meetings have been truly eye opening and heart warming.

The pandemic came and after that I haven’t really felt inclined to go, for various reasons.

But this invite peaked my interest again. The society in question was new to me, but was founded in the early 1900s, and the first meeting was a healing evening, free of charge. So basically it was a no brainer to go and see how the people, the place felt.

Turned out it was a very unpretentious gathering, in a very nice part of the city that I’d never explored before. The healing session did absolutely zero for me. But the evening as a whole was just lovely. 

The non-stop talking as we walked, on the buses, on the trains was really uplifting and inspiring. We laughed a lot and I decided she should be my professional mentor, and she happily said yes and felt flattered.

Unfortunately she got a bad cold a few days later, so we haven’t talked further about this or set any strategy. But that will happen.

This makes me happy, grateful and excited for new beginnings. And new thoughts and inspiration entering my space.

Which is of course feels even better given recent devestating international events. Something positive to look forward to, to focus on.

Regarding the negative events on the political arena, I have decided to again stop consuming news for a week or two (long term readers of this blog might remember I did that for an extensive period years ago. It worked wonders for my brain and well-being). The local Swedish news I may allow myself to have a look/read at now and then though.

It will be hart impossible to avoid all international news of course, LinkedIn posts will be difficult to not see. But I need not open any articles. Or doom scroll social media. I can focus of things that makes me feel good and happy.

I hope you are able to do that too.

Because also great things are coming.

Kindness is key.