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LUNARE(clipse) ([personal profile] lunareism) wrote2010-09-14 05:07 pm
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this is really stupid, i'm sure.

Have you guys ever felt like you were protected?  Like something has saved you from death for a reason?  I feel absolutely insane when I think about it, but I feel like I'm protected.

Or maybe I'm just stupidly lucky.  An absurd amount of luck that no one should ever have.

[livejournal.com profile] kyio  got me thinking about curses and things that haunt you.  In my family, at least on my mother's side, there's been a large amount of drownings.  Just last year my uncle drowned to death in a lake, and his best friend hadn't been able to save him.  There have been others, or so my mother says, including a great uncle of mine.  In my own case, I've almost drowned several times, but I was lucky to be saved every single time.

One time, I had swum out past the buoys.  I could hardly touch the ground without going under, as I was swimming about, my feet skimming the ground, I suddenly fell into a hole.  I remember panicking, I remember there was no one nearby, and then someone saved me.  An older man with black hair, and some chin fuzz.  I thanked him profusely as he helped me towards the shore, and then I never saw him again.

There have been so many other times that, when I think about it I feel lightheaded.  I've come so close to drowning, but every time there's someone there.  It's probably just luck, the idea of someone being protected by the supernatural or God seems inane, but still... I like the idea of being a super special snowflake.

...It's kind of stupid.

[identity profile] muse-lightning.livejournal.com 2010-09-14 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I believe people don't die until it's supposed to happen, for whatever cosmic reasons it may be that we don't understand. So protected? I can totally believe that.

I once had a guy I was really close to record a message for me a few days before his death, and even though we lived on the opposite sides of the country his family sent it to me. He told me that he'd be watching over me from wherever he was and if I got up there with him before I was old and gray he'd drop kick me back down. I still believe him to this day.

[identity profile] saturate.livejournal.com 2010-09-15 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't think about it like that.

And oh my God, that's beautiful. I mean, really. Did he know he was going to die soon?

[identity profile] muse-lightning.livejournal.com 2010-09-15 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Well he was sick and he knew that, and I'm pretty sure he really didn't have that long to live, but he died of a completely unrelated car accident. I think he knew something was going to happen like that though, because I had been upset at him the last time we talked on the phone and he mentioned he didn't want it to end like that.