Earrings of surprise:

'Close your eyes and be like that until I tell you', I said when my wife,S, told me that we were going shopping this weekend, for a new pair of ear-rings. Ten seconds later, feeling a lot like an all-powerful genie, I dropped a gift-wrapped box from Swarovski in her lap. I had been planning to place it under her pillow, but I could not have asked for a more opportune moment to surprise her.

Eager to know what prank I was playing on her, S suspiciously open the blue box with a red bow. An unforgettable wave of surprised and happy look spread on her face when she saw a pair of gold plated clip-ons glittering inside the square package.

On an impulse I had wanted do something unusual to surprise her. She had had no idea that I had been to the Swarovski on my way back from work, already later than usual, or how I had sneaked the gift behind the TV in the living room. When she had called up earlier in the evening I had mentioned about 'something urgent that had come up' that had held me up.

What suprised her doubly though was the fact that she had been thinking about new earrings only that evening, and she had not yet told me about it. While I had on my own had decided to surprise her with...new earrings.

While I dismissed this as a happy coincidence, my wife interpreted her 'had been thinking about the earring all evening' as a premonition of sorts. Taking the middle path, though, one can also look at this as a first example of 'Principle of Synchronicity'in my life . By saying this, I am not referring to any of the psychic abilities that I completely doubt I will ever develop. I am only referring to incident as 'two events happening simultaneously, without a cause, but joined by a meaning.' which by the way is what principle of sychronicity tries to explain.

But what is the meaning of this for S and me?

I am trying to figure it.