Bizzarre

I think I 'ran into' someone I knew briefly from about 23-24 years ago.

Yeh, I was just a lttle girl then.

I have this distant memory of this person. Havent thought of them in years. Why would I?

I did a search for someone completely different-- I wanted to find an old female friend from college who last resided in California. And I havent "searched" for anyone in specific- ever. But I stayed intonight and have been vegging out.

I suddenly decide to look up an old pal. Somehow, this person came about in the search results. I swear I saw "california" on the location.. then it said, "st. catherines" um, big difference. However, the location and someting about this person (something drew me to take a closer look at the info- -which really didn't tell me much) prompted me to inquire about this distant memory-- which I remembered out of the blue.

random?

I'll feel silly if it isn't him.

I feel kind of silly asking someone to think back 24 years ago to a small detail of their history.

But I couldn't NOT inquire.

I only aksed if they recall general thing; I remember a young boy nursing a baby bluejay back to health. I think its mother had abandoned it or died. This little boy took great care of it and he let his neighbors little neice (me) help feed it. This would have occured in a span of three days more than two decades ago and I havent been back.

Now that I think about it, there are more memories surrounding that-- the details are coming back.

I hope they check their email for this.

The weird thing is, is that all this is a sense of deja vous. As though I knew I'd run into him again sometime.

I was 6 years old.

But things like this happen often.. I just go with it.

I have vivd memories gaing back well before that time. Even before two years of age. Many of my memories are strong.

Then there are all the other details I can recall any time- although usually at random, not because I necessarily want to.

"care, how the hell do you remember that shit?"

"I don't know, I just do"

I can also glance at something and remember it. When I need it to be concrete, I stare at whatever it is for a a moment until I can really see it in my head. I never needed a planner to keep track of anything as I just 'filed' it away in my head, even if whatever the event doesn't occur for weeks or months from that point in time. If I made a list, it wasnt to use when I needed it, it was to visually take a snap shot of it in my mind, so I can refer to is as though I had the actual list in my hand at a later time.

Often when I am remembering something that had been in written form, I am "reading" it from an image in my head. It is very helpful.

So yeh, while all this is pretty normal for me, it may be really strange to someone else.

Hopefully they will drop me a line to let me know one way or another.

How neat might that be?