I wonder at times, or maybe I am sure that there is a seemingly active intelligence that runs my world. I first noticed it as a young fisherman. I would hear the older fishermen talk about it happening, although being young there were never very many people to discuss it with. Later I noticed it playing sports. After that it was dating, driving, or almost any random activity.

Start with fishing, that is where I first noticed it, and I bet you noticed it about the same time. We did a lot of stream fishing. The adults, usually my Mom, Grandfather, or other family members would descend on one of many favorite trout streams. Which stream depended on the time of year, or how the other stream was purportedly doing relative to what they thought they could catch at a particular stream.

I was old enough I could fish by myself within a certain boundaries. I could go no further upstream than this rock, and no farther downstream than this bend. That was usually about one hundred yards of mostly shallow water. I would cast out my worm and wait. Sometimes I would catch a fish. Once in a while I would fish at a spot where I would catch many fish. When I found a many fish spot I would go back to it next time, and usually I would catch fish there every time at that spot.

Usually, being a key word of the previous sentence. As soon as I told someone about the great fishing spot on the stream and they walked with me to fish for a few minutes we would not get as much as a single bite. I would end up telling a friend or family member, “You should have been here the last times.” This uttered after I have spent many days bragging about how good the fishing was at my ‘secret spot’.

Driving a car reinforced my thinking about my life being manipulated and changed instantly. Speed all I want until I really need to get somewhere, and bingo! A police car every quarter mile is be the new reality. It always amazes how this happens.

What is even more amazing is what happens once I realize there is a pattern involved. I discover a pattern that has repeated itself time after time or event after event. All I have to do is tell someone what I observed. Suddenly, it is like the previous fifty times never happened. Nothing I experienced before happens, and everything does that never happened before.

The stock market I have found follows the same laws, once I recognized a pattern, the pattern disappears. I discovered this in the middle to late 80’s when the market high and lows followed the cycle of the moon, or so it seemed.

What I find most amazing is the speed and completeness of these changes. It is like any previous pattern never existed, and is simply a figment of my imagination. Almost the moment I realize there is a pattern to follow, the whole program changes! If I am lucky enough to solve discover the new pattern quickly it changes again into something new.

I wish I had an answer or explanation for the highly aware very sophisticated force that can change my world in the blink of an eye, yet make it all flow like it has always been that way, but I can’t. If you have read to hear, and find this confusing, or simply think I am full of it, put it to the test yourself.

Look for patterns in something you do. Something that is rather complex and involves yourself only. Once you are sure you know what will happen, watch a change happen right before your eyes.

I really believe there is a real and tangible something in my life, that instantly rearranges my life when I notice something that apparently I am not supposed to notice. Maybe it is all me, maybe it is not, I am sure at a loss to explain it.