This week was very strange. Feeling all kinds of weird energies, which I know a lot of others felt too. Don’t know if it’s mental or physical fatigue, or just tuning in to crazy collective energy.

But the most interesting thing that happened to me was a series of interesting flashbacks. My phone has this feature – which I love- where it shows me random photos from the years past. Earlier this week it flashed a photo of 2 of my really good friends visiting me in a hospital on the day my daughter was born years ago, holding her and looking very happy. The most interesting part is that this couple eventually got married and just had their 2nd child a couple of weeks ago!!! So this iphone flashback got me thinking – how strange and interesting, and unpredictable life really is. If I told these people on the day they were holding my little girl that years later they’ll be living in a house in suburbs (they are super urban fabulous people), married with 2 kids, and holding their own little girl almost 8 years in the future, they’d probably laugh at me. But how amazing their lives turned out!

Then another weird flashback happened to me – my husband left the Sirius station on 90s music and I was driving and a song started playing, which made me have an ultimate flashback. I just moved to this country in the 90s. Scared, sheltered teen for whom not just driving her own car but even being able to listen to the pop music in the car at all was unheard of just literally months before moving to US. I was very poor, lonely, anxious, lost, and felt like a caveman probably would’ve if ended up being transported to the future by some magic device. There I was, driving in my 1st clunker in a Southern town, barely able to even drive, listening to Marky Mark, looking for jobs, trying to adjust to my new environment, and wondering what will happen to me, and how my life would unfold. I honestly never would be able to imagine the way things turned out.

I would’ve loved if I were able to look into future that day and see myself now, to feel more hopeful and optimistic, that my wild ride would have a meaning some day. I mentally waved to my teen self and thought that G-d definitely works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform.

Have you had flashbacks like this? Where you suddenly mentally see yourself or some other people close to you in situations years ago, where nobody had a clue about what interesting twists and turns their lives would take? And think to yourself – wow, I’d never believe the story if someone told me this would happen… I love these stories, they are always better than any fiction!

Would love for you to share your stories with me!