The story behind SyncOrSwim

“Synchronicities are people, places or events that your soul attracts into your life - to help you evolve or to place emphasis on something going on in your life.”

http://www.crystalinks.com/synchronicity.html

I discovered this concept while reading some essays by the great philosopher Carl Jung.

Sometimes we watch movies and read novels and somehow convince ourselves that these plots and twists are too conveniently coincidental. That real life is this massive organic explosion that makes no sense and we’re all just maggots climbing through to get the most food.

Synchronicity is the idea that nothing is an accident. That certain things that come into your life are suppose to for a reason. Think of the series of events that led you to where you are today. If I hadn’t had a teeth cleaning on a certain day five years ago, the thought of going to GWU would have never entered my mind. Why did I get so many scholarships from GW as opposed to any other school, making my decision easy? I would definitely not be here today. What if Australia (where my parents and family had applied for sponsorship as refugees) had accepted them instead of rejecting them. Would I have been born as Australian, or would have I been born at all? As random as things may seem (especially violence) there is poetry in everything we do. We are naturally drawn to it. How is it when you need hope the most, you meet someone that gives you that hope.

Synch or Swim? Synchronicities are just signs. It is up to the person receiving those signs to read them. We have free will. Free will is man’s gift and curse. That is why my Blog is named the way it is.