Spooked

I don't really believe in supernatural stuff much. We don't have ghost stories in our family, or things like that. They interest me and sometimes fascinate me, it's almost as of I'd like to believe them, however my rational, skeptical side always wins.

About six years ago, I went to see a psychic, after someone at work kept insisting on taking me me for months. She wanted to make me a convert. She lived by what that woman told her, and she was so certain that I would, too. Back then, M and I knew each other, had told each other about our feelings, and I was thinking about him all the time. But he had recently started to see someone, having decided that after two years of waiting for me, if nothing had happened yet then it never would (ha!). So we weren't a couple.

So did the psychic wowed me? Meh. Not really. Although a lot of what she told me did come true, that yes, we would be together and he was the true love of my life, we would get married, have two children -one girl and one boy, etc. She also somewhat (although not exactly) accurately predicted how we would officially start our relationship, a week or two after that. She additionally said that we would one day start a business together, and live in a big, secluded house by the water with lots of space and a huge wooden garden, which actually are our two big, main dreams (well that and living abroad).

But you know, she told me what I wanted to hear and to believe. Nothing in there is also out of the ordinary -she pretty much described the most generic life path and family one could have. Normal odds of these things happening anyway were pretty much in her favor... Furthermore, I mostly think that these people's greatest talent lies in extracting the slightest thing you suggest to them, verbally and non-verbally, and extrapolating on that... The only thing that did take me aback was when she affirmed that M rode a motorcycle, because truly she had no way of knowing that and it was pretty random. So.

But premonitory dreams/visions/feelings, I don't know. These are puzzling and a little confounding. My dad has had not one but two of those, both occurring within a month of each other when I was a baby. Both were true and completely spooky. My father is a science man, very rational and sensible. So these, I believe.

Now you might remember that M has started a new job a few months ago. So even though he's friendly with his co-workers, he doesn't know them much and hasn't shared a lot about his personal life. But last week one of them came to his desk, looking grave.

She asked him, completely out of the blue, whether he had a specific health issue (which he does, but nearly no ones knows that). M nodded, a little dumbfounded. "Is is well controlled?", she went on. M shook his head. "Go to doctor. You need to be better at controlling this".

"Er?..." Was all M was able to say.

She went on to ask that he please not think of her as a witch, but that she had a dream about him last night. About this aspect of his health, which is not major but could potentially become worrisome. And it wasn't good. She felt awful and couldn't sleep after. She added that it was one of those dreams she has once in a while when she knows she has to tell the person after.

And did these dreams usually come true? Yes, she said. Once, she even called a friend she hadn't talked to in years to predict her miscarriage. The woman hadn't told anyone she was (3 months) pregnant yet. She sort of laughed at her. Then called back two days later because she had lost the baby.

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M now has an appointment, but only next month. I must admit I have a hard time thinking about anything else.