To Be or Not To Be

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott

...that more or less describes my situation!

~A Wise Man Said~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle

Tuesday, June 30, 2026
 

Do people get some sort of strange sense that someone is thinking about them a lot? Maybe they suddenly start thinking about them too without knowing why? But then is it them thinking the first time in the sequence so the other person then starts thinking about them or the other person thought about them first, so they started thinking without knowing why? This is how I tie myself in knots! The simple question I am pondering is whether intensity of feeling can be so powerful that by some magical thread it tugs the other person? But the other person wouldn't know why they feel so tugged...? In my community there is a superstition that if you yawn repeatedly, that means someone is thinking of you. I saw older people say this to other people when I was a child, 'oh, someone is thinking of you!'. Then sometimes when I would be chatting with my mother and she would all of a sudden get a yawning bout, I would tell her, 'I am thinking of you!'. She would tell me that's not how it works! I don't know why I found that funny...