Totally random meeting of forum member

[pugcasso]

This was pretty interesting ... sort of 'Twilight Zone'-like synchonicty (Carl Jung's idea of seemingly coincidental unrelated events sharing some amazing alignment).


Just walking around my city (Halifax, Nova Scotia), I have never seen anyone (that I can recall) wearing a kilt except at the busy market and some touristy spots like some bus tours, pubs and restaurants and the old fort Citadel Hill (playing to the Scottish history angle)...

So today, after walking around Point Pleasant Park for some hours, I made my way walking home. I was in the middle of the huge grassy area (with some softball ball diamonds and a central fountain) called the "Commons" (which I live next to) and in the middle I find myself walking right towards another kilted fellow walking also towards me at an angle.

We had to stop and have a few words and it turns out he was "Newfoundlander" from the forum .

What are the chances of such a random encounter. I've never seen a kilt-wearer just walking around the city and only 3 days into wearing a kilt, I happen to be walking straight towards another forum member in the middle of a huge grassy field in the middle of my city haha


I find that quite amazing!


A group of people were walking by and smiling a bit... I thought maybe they thought it was odd seeing two kilted guys talking in the middle of the Commons grounds (but maybe I'm just a wee bit conscious of wearing a skirt, er, kilt in public still)...


Anyway, pretty neat occurrence

[O'Searcaigh]

Wouldn't it be nice if this sort of thing were not just a rare "synchronicity" but a not uncommon occurrence? I hope to be able to visit up that way next September and would love to see some (other) gentlemen in kilts. Perhaps XMarks helps generate the critical mass in the collective unconscious to help make it so?

[Bugbear]

This was pretty interesting ... sort of 'Twilight Zone'-like synchonicty (Carl Jung's idea of seemingly coincidental unrelated events sharing some amazing alignment).


Just walking around my city (Halifax, Nova Scotia), I have never seen anyone (that I can recall) wearing a kilt except at the busy market and some touristy spots like some bus tours, pubs and restaurants and the old fort Citadel Hill (playing to the Scottish history angle)...

So today, after walking around Point Pleasant Park for some hours, I made my way walking home. I was in the middle of the huge grassy area (with some softball ball diamonds and a central fountain) called the "Commons" (which I live next to) and in the middle I find myself walking right towards another kilted fellow walking also towards me at an angle.






What are the chances of such a random encounter. I've never seen a kilt-wearer just walking around the city and only 3 days into wearing a kilt, I happen to be walking straight towards another forum member in the middle of a huge grassy field in the middle of my city haha


I find that quite amazing!


A group of people were walking by and smiling a bit... I thought maybe they thought it was odd seeing two kilted guys talking in the middle of the Commons grounds (but maybe I'm just a wee bit conscious of wearing a skirt, er, kilt in public still)...


Anyway, pretty neat occurrence

Congratulations on meeting another kilty.

That would be C. G. Jung's, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, and I think also, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche.

[xman]

Just yesterday I was out to Occupy Vancouver, heard bagpipes and followed the sound to BruceBC and jhockin. It's fun when that happens.

[Riverkilt]

It do happen. Happened with me and Kennethrmc a couple years ago at the V bar V petroglyph site in the boonies of Arizona, a long way from both our homes....go figure....

[Newfoundlander]

Maybe kilts really have an unknown almost gravitational-like pull to one another....

It was great to meet you there yesterday lad! I've always said you don't see enough kilted men around Halifax (my comrades in the 78th Highlanders excluded of course).

You certainly wear it well lad, I'll give you that, especially with the pipe and walking stick Hopefully we'll run into each other again soon!

[pugcasso]

Yes it was great to randomly meet you in the Commons (kind of surreal)... I liked your kilt - the colours were more warm and 'earthy' than mine ... I still like mine but it's colours are a bit cool in tone whereas most of my shirts are sort of earthy and warmer coloured. But it's ok.


My walking stick was hand made by someone I saw at the market two Saturdays ago - it's made from a tree root. The prices were really low and I really liked his cane-sized and staff-sized works. I usually just carry it attached to my back sack but walking through the woods and up the hills in Point Pleasant Park gave it some use.

I was smoking some "Old Dublin" pipe tobacco. It's fairly strong in the nicotine department so it can have a strong effect (there is something meditative and calming about pipes and pipe tobaccos. Partly could be the ritual and process of it and partly the effect of the substance).


Anyway, perhaps we'll get out to the Old Triangle (or some place ... Rogue's Roost has some good beers they brew there) for a brew some day.