I guess most of you, at least in the future, wouldn’t know I am of Dutch origin and currently live in The Philippines. And right now the quote about negative things by definition somehow have something positive in them:
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
And it seems to be true for me related to the typhoon that hit a part of The Philippines around a week ago. And in this case I was not even affected in a bad way myself, but what I see on TV the destruction in some areas is enormous, like the city of Tacloban seems to be virtually completely destroyed. And I have visited that city a few years ago and it was just a normal Philippine city, not just a shanty area or something. Just pretty decent built houses and shops and such in the city center. So yes, something really bad happened there, no matter what I wrote about Philippine culture a few days ago in my Dutch blog.
But something good came out for me as some people I did not have contact with for quite some time or even a long time were sending me messages to check if I was OK. And actually some people from a very long time ago, from my study time and my first job. So somehow very important people from the period ‘where it all began’ where I also have been thinking quite a lot about recently.
So while writing also something like ‘Law of Attraction‘ comes to mind. It seems that thoughts indeed have enormous power as I have been thinking quite a lot about the period of my first job recently. And the most important person about that period contacted me a few days ago. And i have been thinking quite a lot about my student home, especially a certain person. And it was not that person contacting me, but another one from exactly the same period, the same group. Coincidence? Well, while writing, cannot really be. There is indeed more between heaven and earth than we can see. And it is good!