It's funny the things you notice when your minds is overwhelmed with crisis. Take last week for exanple...
During the course of event surrounding Lesley's health crisis, I kept noticing the strangest, most superficial things. When I was getting ready to visit the hospital, I noticed that it was the shortest time I had spent showering and getting dressed. Later, at the hospital I noticed the patterns of the carpet in the waitin gareas were conducive to pacing. I began an inner debate about whether or not the hospital architects had intended that way so that nervous visitors would have somehting to do by treading the large rectangular pattern on the floor.
After we had taken Bekka back to her apartment to change clothes, I noticed a new blink182 CD on their bar next to the empty Target Gift Card holder we had given Lesley for her birthday just two days before. I assumed she had bought the CD with the gift card, though I never confirmed it with Bekka. When I arrived at Leeann's house to comfort her, I noticed a dubbed blink182 CD on her breakfast table, which reminded me that Bekka had been wearing a blink182 sweatshirt when we met her at the hospital, before she changed clothes. I joked to Leeann that blink182 was responsible for the week's events, considering it had been a common thread running throughout the respective crises.
But the question remains, why did I notice these things in the first place? Maybe it is because the mind can only process htings in small increments, and when faced with such traumatic, life-altering events, it focuses on simpler, mundane things to occupy itslef while the subconscious quietly absorbs the shock; a defense mechanism to protect the psyche from sudden trauma.
Though, I still think blink182 had something to do with it all...
During the course of event surrounding Lesley's health crisis, I kept noticing the strangest, most superficial things. When I was getting ready to visit the hospital, I noticed that it was the shortest time I had spent showering and getting dressed. Later, at the hospital I noticed the patterns of the carpet in the waitin gareas were conducive to pacing. I began an inner debate about whether or not the hospital architects had intended that way so that nervous visitors would have somehting to do by treading the large rectangular pattern on the floor.
After we had taken Bekka back to her apartment to change clothes, I noticed a new blink182 CD on their bar next to the empty Target Gift Card holder we had given Lesley for her birthday just two days before. I assumed she had bought the CD with the gift card, though I never confirmed it with Bekka. When I arrived at Leeann's house to comfort her, I noticed a dubbed blink182 CD on her breakfast table, which reminded me that Bekka had been wearing a blink182 sweatshirt when we met her at the hospital, before she changed clothes. I joked to Leeann that blink182 was responsible for the week's events, considering it had been a common thread running throughout the respective crises.
But the question remains, why did I notice these things in the first place? Maybe it is because the mind can only process htings in small increments, and when faced with such traumatic, life-altering events, it focuses on simpler, mundane things to occupy itslef while the subconscious quietly absorbs the shock; a defense mechanism to protect the psyche from sudden trauma.
Though, I still think blink182 had something to do with it all...