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Old Jul 29, 2011, 07:27 AM
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I get signs like this as well, that other people wouldn't necessarily percieve as signs.

For example, my first job after school, I was walking to work on the first day, and a bird flew up against me and hit my hand, then flew away. I took it as a positive sign of a fresh start. On my way home after a talk with my manager, in which we agreed that I wasn't up to the job (my symptoms were starting to kick in at this age) I saw a dead bird on the ground in front of me. I saw that as a sign that my fresh start had failed.

My previous job was also marked by an encounter with an animal. A chap who later treated me extremely badly in connection with my work was, at the time, being decent towards me. I was getting a lift from him, when we hit a snake on the road. We got out, and I put a shopping bag on my hand, lifted the snake (which was an adder, and in retrospect could easily have bitten me) and put him on the grass. I waited a short while to see if he recovered from the car strike, there was a little bit of blood. Then suddenly he swarmed off, as they do, through the grass. At the time I wondered if it was a warning... snake in the grass etc, but wrote that off as a silly thought. Turned out that the chap who was giving me a lift really was a snake in the grass. But also, there's a verse about how people can handle poisonous snakes and come to no harm. I'm wondering if that's what's happening with me... he's still harassing me, but is ultimately defanged. Well, we'll see. He's still dragging me through court, but if I remember the snake incident instead of biting me the creature slithered away. Perhaps this particular snake in the grass will do the same thing.

But yes, I see signs everywhere, and other people just look right through them.
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Here I sit so patiently
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Going through all these things twice.
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