Signs, signs

It's funny how sometimes us modern people turn to silly signs to see if we'll get what we want, we're where we're supposed to be in life and, naturally, that we're with the one we're supposed to be with.

Have I asked for signs? Guilty as charged, officer.

But, apparently, it runs in my family. You see, last weekend, when my mother and I spent some time at our summer cottage, I found out that she isn't playing with card just for fun like I do. Oh no. At times she asks the cards a question and if the game goes well, the answer is yes. Interestingly, but one morning she announced that she had asked the cards if I was with the man who is the right one for me. Apparently, the cards replied quickly "yes".

For most people this may sound something silly, but not to me. My mother is not one of those women who rely on their hearts with things. No, she uses her head and trusts on her sense and reason. So, naturally, when she asked a question like that from a deck of cards, I found that oddly amusing and yet comforting.

You see, I have asked some signs on the matter myself. When I saw two swans on the lake, I whispered: if we're meant to be, please, swans, be here to greet him and me when we come here together... Sounds silly? Perhaps. I didn't give it much of a thought until we arrived together to the see the lake view for the first time and there were two swans quite near. These things happen, sure, but still I smiled thrugh that day.

I also asked a sign about another matter as well. I hoped to get some kind of clear sign, which would point to me how one thing, which is worrying me, will turn out. Well, last weekend I got my sign and once again I can thank swans for delivering it to me.

I suppose it is weird that we count on little signs when we're sorting our lives out. It is comforting to know that when one is wondering a question/some situation and hopes for a clear sign and it turns up. Of course it could be that those "signs" are in fact just random events, which occur every day, everywhere and nobody pays that much attention to them until one has asked for a sign. In other words, we decide that something we see is the sign we want/hope/need... It could be. Yet it is so simple to trust them and believe in them.