The people you meet

Have you ever met someone, and somewhere in the back of your mind thought, "I don't know why it's signficant that I'm meeting this person, but I know this person will play some part in my life." This happens to me every few months - I'll meet someone at work, or school, or via my kids...and I'll just kinda know that this person will have a significant impact on me. Sometimes the impact is not really known until much later. For example - I first got into the whole pastry thing when I did an "Intro to Buttercream" night class for fun. The people in the class were nice enough but one in particular seemed really cool - she had a job at a hip patisserie/bakery in a hip part of town and she gave me that wierd brain click thing. We didn't talk much in that class, we didn't stay in contact at all, she really was nothing to me then other than a random lady who gave me a brain click. Two years later that person became my boss and I now count her as one of my very good friends (on this blog she is known as the sicilian). These sorts of things - people hunches, let's call them - happen to me often enough that I wonder if it's my own kind of superpower. Like in the 7th grade there was a exchange student from Perth - her Dad's company moved them to Los Angeles for the year. We were friends, she was nice, but it all ended when she and her family went back to Perth - in the 7th grade long term friendships across the globe were not the done thing. I remember thinking, "Where the HECK is Perth?" Anyway, she is now a member of this group. She was, technically speaking, my first connection to Australia. Someday I will contact her again and tell her that (when she's not touring and selling a gajillion albums that is). She, at the time, was not a brain click person but in retrospect she must have been - a retrospective people hunch. I'm not talking about the people you lose contact with and then think about once in a while, and then you google their name, and then you either forget again about them or email them madly for 3 weeks and then not again until the next time you decide to google them. I'm talking about the people, who, for reasons which cannot be explained, have a real, significant impact on your life and the choices you make. Or people who, merely by virtue of meeting them, will change or at least influence the decisions you make in the future. I have yet to be wrong about my people hunches - maybe some would say I am just very intuitive - but it's interesting, isn't it? I never tell these people that they are my brain click (because they would look at me very strangely, and rightly so) - it's just kinda my secret knowledge about them - so when the whole hunch comes full circle and that thing happens which was attatched to them happens - I secretly, inwardly smile and think, "A-HA! Right again!"

*happy sigh* I love people hunches.