Coincidences abound
Technology and the Universe are equally strange! You know the old saying about six degrees of removal… well…
I work for our local authority, although my job role has changed a bit in the last year or so and I’m now with the Involvement Team. I still work sometimes with the diseverything young people, but in a different capacity. Anyway, one of the areas I’m supposed to try to work in is helping young people in care to have a say in their services received. This covers lots of stuff including training the young people to help commission their advocacy service. (Bear with me, this IS going somewhere!)
This means I talk to social workers more than I have done in the past. One of these is a social worker from Cumbria – and he is Canadian. He qualified at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. I first spoke to him at around the time my daughter had her brief sojourn into Lethbridge University life last year and we’ve exchanged a few emails since then. It just seemed to me that out of the whole English speaking world (because we (the UK) are madly recruiting social workers from everywhere), it is pretty amazing that the ONLY overseas-recruited one I speak to is from the one area where I have connections.
Then I received a strange email which read “Your email was deleted without being read on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:12:57 -0700.” The email it was referring to was over five years old(!) and was to/from a lovely lady called Rebecca who was my daughter’s social worker in Lethbridge seven years ago!
I hadn’t heard from Rebecca for quite a while and just assumed this email was triggered by her leaving her job and the office deleting all her files and closing her email account. But I replied anyway and she replied back to me straight away!
Lethbridge. Social work. Emails.
Daughter, living in Lethbridge, attended the university there (even though she didn’t stick it out).
Daughter’s social worker, living in Lethbridge, completely unexpected email arrives putting us back in touch.
Work related social worker, studied at Lethbridge University, corresponding with him by email.
The world is weird.
The world gets smaller everyday, doesn’t it?
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The world is definitely weird! My weirdest experience of this type was sort of second-hand. I know one, and only one, family in Yogyakarta, central Java, which is a city of more than a million people. I correspond with the father, have for more than thirty years. Some years ago one of my Indonesian language students, with her parents, visited Yogyakarta. Her father ordered noodles at a food stall, then sat beside an Indonesian customer, waiting. The Indonesian (who spoke no English), said: “American?” Father Bert, who spoke no Indonesian, said “No, Australian.” Indonesian, very interested, said the name of our little city. Bert, astonished, said “Yes!” My Indonesian friend, now very excited, said my name and hauled a letter from me out of his pocket!! With the aid of their bilingual children, the two families spent a very pleasant evening together!
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That’s quite spooky actually!
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yes sometimes the coincidences are amazing.
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I don’t believe these are coincidences. Not in the sense most people think of them. I think it has to do with the law of attraction. And yes, I’m aware that makes me sound utterly loopy.
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The universe has a way of throwing mind-boggling co-incidences in our way like that. Maybe it’s all ‘meant to be’ or maybe it’s just the random universe working its random chaos? Whatever- it’s great that you are now in contact with that social worker again.
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Interesting!!! It’s a small, small world! :)xo
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I feel even stranger reading about an area that is a few hours away from us in a UK diary!
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