Synchronicity or Coincidence, You Be The Judge.

bygavfitz

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Updated 9 years ago

If you've read my previous blog about Time Conscious Eating you'd know that I try to eat my foods on time. If you haven't read it yet, I advise doing so now as it could well turn out to be the most important thing you do this week (I could go so far as to say this year but too many people would think I'm exaggerating and then they wouldn't even finish reading this blogpost!!!)

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not perfect (but I'm getting closer everyday) I don't eat 100% of my food on time but it's probably around the 80% mark and I've read a lot about the 80/20 ratio.

Anyway when I led a life of fast food/junk food eating things never really fell into place for me, maybe I'd leave my car in a space and my parking ticket would have expired 5 mins before and there'd be a ticket there waiting for me.

But since I started eating on time I've had many accounts of things finally going "right" in my life, one such incident (or should I say two such incidences) recently took place (last Thursday and Friday to be precise).

I'd love to hear your take on this, is it Sun Synchronicity or just plain old coincidence...?!?

I recently became a "businessman" here in Italy and the day we did all the paperwork myself, my partner and my 3 month old baby boy went into a random bar in the biggest city in our area and I bumped into an old student and his father who recently moved to Naples (over 250km from where I live) and were only in Ancona to wait for his mother who was a witness in her friend's court case.
So they were literally in the city for an hour or two and I just happen to walk into the bar where they were waiting and the student's father offered to pay for our two glasses of wine. Plus this bar isn't a local bar, it's located 30km from my home (what were the odds?)

But it doesn't end there the next day I went to the bank which was closed for a strike and I felt a bit peckish so I went to the local bar (this time 5km from my house) and I bumped into another student and his mother.
I helped him with his English conversational skills last summer and he won a position to go to study in Australia next summer because of the help I gave him. So inevitably his mother offered to pay for whatever I wanted in the bar.

Now I know this seems to the ordinary person like a normal, everyday coincidence but I have to disagree and call it synchronicity.
You see I'm pretty fixed in my eating habits, in the sense that I almost always prepare my food at home with the best select foods from locally grown organic farmers, top quality wine and spring water harvested every month from the Italian Appenines.

I almost NEVER go to a bar to eat "normal" food, when I say almost never it's a bit of an exaggeration but seriously I probably go to a bar for a snack once every two months as I usually have a stash of goji berries or chia seeds packed away with me if I'm on the go.
So to go to two bars two days in a row and not have to put my hand in my pocket is a really unusual experience for me.

I'd love to hear you take on this and I'd love even more to hear about those of you who have started practising eating on time with some similar results, perhaps we could start a sort of social experiment.

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Your friend, Gav.