When you’re happy, you can start a happiness virus through your social network, according to a Harvard and UC San Diego study.
So update your Twitter and Facebook status with good things and spread the love!
No conclusive info about when you’re down, although I know that’s as good a people repellant as B.O.
Just a couple of anecdotes from the last month of odd synchronicity phenomena:
1) My friend called to say her boyfriend was going to party in San Fran with his buddies. I was in another town at the time. I got back to San Fran and within 10 minutes ran into her boyfriend with his friends - on a small, mostly deserted street neither one of us had ever been on, in an area I last walked in 10 years ago. He lives and works in another city and I had no idea when he was arriving in SF.
2) I pulled up to a street parking space one evening in Oakland, 4 blocks away from a venue where I was seeing a rock concert. From the car in front of me, out gets someone I had spoken to the day before. We live in different cities and had no idea the other was going to the concert. No one else was on the block. I didn’t run into anyone else I knew at the show.
3) Just after seating myself on an airplane, bound from Los Angeles to San Francisco, a passenger walked by who looked remarkably like someone who lives in San Francisco, who I had “forgotten” to call a week earlier. It was he. The flight provided a chance to re-connect on a friendly level.
Why, where, how? What does it all mean? And why aren’t there such coincidences when I pick numbers for a lottery ticket?
PS: “Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally unrelated. In order to be synchronous, the events must be related to one another conceptually, and the chance that they would occur together by random chance must be very small.” (Wikipedia)
Yes - September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Visit the website for basic and advanced speaking lingo - including pick-up lines and German pirate phrases. Here are the basics:
Ahoy! - "Hello!" (If you don’t at LEAST use Ahoy! today well….)
Avast! - Stop and give attention. It can be used in a sense of surprise, "Whoa! Get a load of that!" which today makes it more of a "Check it out" or "No way!" or "Get off!"
Aye! - "Why yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said or did."
Aye aye! - "I’ll get right on that sir, as soon as my break is over."
Arrr! - This one is often confused with arrrgh, which is of course the sound you make when you sit on a belaying pin. "Arrr!" can mean, variously, "yes," "I agree," "I’m happy," "I’m enjoying this beer," "My team is going to win it all," "I saw that television show, it sucked!" and "That was a clever remark you or I just made." And those are just a few of the myriad possibilities of Arrr!
In case you missed my blog posting about the pirate supply store, while it’s too late for today’s piratey activities unless you live in San Francisco, make SURE to check it out!!
Shiver me timbers!
I would like for you to test something out. The next time you want something that someone can help you with say:
I’ve always wanted to ______. It’s on my life list!
or
My friends have said I should put on my life list that I want to ___________.
If it’s something offbeat and intriguing I have a feeling it will happen.
If I’m right - send me your story!
Another great photo from Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
I’ve called SuperViva a place to make an "a la carte" menu of things to do in your life. Nikdawg81’s list just made me laugh with delight, inspired with small things like:
break a wooden board with my bare hand
learn to walk the dog on a yoyo
and
be body painted
Very cute that having the largest list on SuperViva was on the list too.
I recently read the advice to think about an easy way to decide how to expend your resources:
"When I get older will I talk about how I remodeled the kitchen? Or will I talk about the fact that I tried to eat a piece of food for each letter of the alphabet and visit all 50 states?"
