Signs

Signs are everywhere.  Big ones, small ones, subtle ones and loud obnoxious ones.  You can walk right in front of one and never notice that there is one right in front of your face waiting for you to notice.  No, not that sign, not the "enter" or "exit' sign.  I'm talking about the "a-ha" signs.

Have you even gotten a sign like that?  You're in your car, pull out of the driveway only to get 50 feet down the road to have to turn around because you forgot your cell phone or wallet.  You go back home, run in the house, go searching all over the place and can't seem to find it.  Now you pulling your hair out searching high and low trying to retrace your steps and go back to your car, not finding it in the house of course, pick up the newspaper on the passenger seat of the car and there sits both the wallet and cell phone.  Now not only are you mad at yourself for turning around, but your 15 minutes late, so decide to take the back roads to work instead.  Arriving at work, park and run in, the buzz in the office is about the horrific accident on the highway involving a big tractor trailer and three or four cars, literally happening when you normally would have been there. All you can think is that you should have been dead or hurt badly, because if you would have never turned around to go back for that phone  you thought you forgot, you would have been plastered all over the highway.  Really!, you even changed the direction you were driving.  Why did all this happen?  You never left anything home to begin with, one and two, you changed routes.  Signs.  It was something that made you change your mind, something deep inside that just told you to go back home to take up some time.  Signs.

There are many types of signs you may get.  A phone call from an old friend, finding a $20 bill in the pocket of your old winter coat, go buy that scratch off ticket only to win $100.  Go to lunch with your best friend at a new place, come to find out they can't make it, you're already there, but someone else shows up and you end up dating them.  What about forgetting to study for your test, get to class and the teacher ends up canceling because they got sick.  Was that a sign or just luck?  Some people may call it luck, I call it a sign.  It's a sign telling you you need to become more aware of your surroundings and yourself.

What about meeting someone new or even better yet someone you already knew and you reconnect after years.  What kind of signs will you get?  How many do you need before you know if things are going to go your way?  Is this person the one?  How do you know and if so how do you know it's true?    This is where signs come in play.  There is a sign for everything.  Open, closed, in, out, the feeling of being sick is a sign.  We all know that feeling and that is can stem from so many different things.  Stress, happiness, sadness, an illness, operation, a smell, bad food, good food, allergies, medicine,  too much to drink, too little to drink and even love.  The difference is , you need to know how to read the signs and when to know if the signs are right and are pertaining to that situation.  You will know.  Or at least there will be a sign.