Seven Days

A guy wrote a book claiming he'll change your life in seven days. A Belmont, MA woman ran seven marathons in 7 days.  And God created heaven and earth in seven days; actually six, he took the seventh day off.  What a difference a day and six make.

Seven months ago I read The Secret. You may recall this book, it was a big deal in 2006.  Do you believe the law of attraction? Do you know what the law is? I can tell you because I have access to Wikipedia. The law is this:  Like Attracts Like.  Positive attracts positive, negative begets negative. Zig Zigglar said, "Positive thinking won't let you do anything. But it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." I always trusted Zig.  Zig was from Tuepolo, MS the birthplace of Elvis. (306 Elvis Presley Drive in case you want to go there.) Tuepolo, by the way, is 231 miles from Hattisburg, MS birthplace of Brett Favre. Oprah and BB King are from Mississippi. So is Jimmy Buffet.  Guy Bush of Tupelo gave up Babe Ruth's last homer. Guy was probably thinking he didn't want to be known as the last guy The Bambino took downtown, and then just like that, he's an answer to a trivia question rarely pondered.

I was asked  a question eleven months ago, "Why are you not seeing anybody?" Now that's a question I had pondered. I had no  answer that I would accept, and then I read The Secret. If like attracts like, the theory goes, if we ask "why not?" the universe will give us "not". The universe it turns out is alarmingly dense. "I'm sorry. I wasn't paying attention. I only heard you say "not".  Good Lord. God gave the universe everything but a brain.

Fortunately for those  who were paying attention, the big secret in moving heaven and earth is to be specific. Do not think in double negatives. If you think about it, that last sentence is a mind bender for the universe. She's lost at the first two words, "Do" and "not". "Wait, what? Do I do or do I not? Help me here."  I had enough experience with the universal problems of specitivity to get the point of The Secret which is, "Ask and you shall receive." How about that?  About the time God was making earth, wind, and fire, he put those 5 words in his own book; the one that's talked about more than read.

Skeptical of the idea of the Universe as a genie but willing to give it an honest chance, I changed my thinking from "why not?" to "I will" as in "The right person has been born, she does exist, she is near, and I will be available when she appears."  Seven days and 15 minutes ago she walked out of somewhere and into my life. That's positively perfect. Go figure. She's not even from Tuepolo.