The Present Future

I find it interesting how intuitive people can be. I know that intuition often gets handed over to the Woo Woo zone where inhabitants go to psychic fares, read tea leafs, tarot cards, horary charts and have faith in reflexology.

Sometimes one can simply observe things and impress people with patterns you notice, like you can predict that there will be a plane crash and the plane will have the color red on its tail. It sounds impressive until you realize that 90% of commercial air-liners have some of the color red in tail.

There are certain patterns that one sees without realizing them, ore seeing one thing that will lead one to a conclusion. The other evening I returned home to see my caller ID light blinking without the answering machine blinking meaning someone called but did not leave a message. The ID showed that a call came from a neighbor and I immediately knew that one of my chickens had been killed by his dog.

Since the garden is finished, I’ve been letting the chickens out to free range. They return to their coop when it gets dark and I lock them in for the night. Sure enough, when I went out to check on them there were only nine hens. The next morning I found where the kill had taken place. It looks like I’ll need to power up the electric fence again. There are a couple neighboring dogs that need electric reminders of where they do not belong.

But back to predicting what will be, I realize that I am rarely ever surprised by a phone call. It seems that I know in advance not only who is calling, but why they are calling. I’d be willing to bet that this is the case with most people as well. Most of what we encounter every day is predictable whether we realize it or not.