Synchronicity, Coincidence and Friends Who Speak Chinese
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006I hung out with Katie last weekend. Katie is Jim’s girlfriend, and, for those who know, Jim was my best friend all through middle school, the one who introduced me to D&D and who I spent my formative years with, listening to Nine Inch Nails and drawing comic books.
Katie is a really cool girl, and I’m in the process of building a site for her business. Well, we were working on her site, and chatting about places in the world we wanted to visit, and got on the topic of China. She apparently lived in Hong Kong for aroun 13 months, and would love to go back. Her biggest qualm with the city though, was that they spoke Cantonese and she was most interested in learning Mandarin. Mandarin! She had followed it through enough that she had even met someone local who was interested in tutoring her in Mandarin. Well, needless to say, I jumped on this opportunity — and now she and are going to be study buddies and learn some Chinese together.
Yay!
So, I chalk this one up to synchronicity and riding those underlying patterns in the world. It’s not plum pudding, but this goes a bit beyond coincidence, I think.