gellatly68
Deity upon a velocipede
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I felt that this didn't quite fit into the 'Premonitions' Thread, but Mods feel free to move this if necessary.
My parents went on holiday at the beginning of April - a nice little jaunt with friends, a villa and oodles of golf. As they're both active retirees with a lively social scene - they've been fortunate and hard-working enough in life to afford several holidays a year - there was nothing unusual in this. I made the usual arrangements with them re looking after their house and plants etc. So far, so normal.
Yet for two or three days before they left, I simply could not shake the thought from my mind that something terrible would happen to my dad, and I might never see him again. There was absolutely no reason at all to think this: after all, he was healthy (albeit with some long term, controlled, issues with his heart and blood pressure), he was active and in a positive, happy mood. I will also say that I have never had such a specific sense of foreboding as this before.
Anyway, off they went and got off to a good time with their friends.
Right up to 5 days after they'd gone. Early in the morning, my mum called me and told me that dad had been in an accident and was in hospital. I won't go into details, but to cut a long story short, he's still in hospital there, recovering and likely to return to the UK by the end of the week - however, his recuperation will be long and difficult.
Both my sister and I have flown out several times to be with him and give our mum practical and emotional support. While we were both there together one evening, I mentioned my sense of foreboding.
'That's funny', she said. 'I've had exactly the same feeling!'
We then mentioned it to mum, who - guess what? - said the same, except in her case she thought it would be her who'd be struck down!
It seems to me almost as if a shadow of a future event was felt. Indeed, I've often wondered whether it might be the case that somehow things that are ahead of us can, sometimes, make themselves apparent in the here and now, and this presentiment I had seems to fall into this category.
My parents went on holiday at the beginning of April - a nice little jaunt with friends, a villa and oodles of golf. As they're both active retirees with a lively social scene - they've been fortunate and hard-working enough in life to afford several holidays a year - there was nothing unusual in this. I made the usual arrangements with them re looking after their house and plants etc. So far, so normal.
Yet for two or three days before they left, I simply could not shake the thought from my mind that something terrible would happen to my dad, and I might never see him again. There was absolutely no reason at all to think this: after all, he was healthy (albeit with some long term, controlled, issues with his heart and blood pressure), he was active and in a positive, happy mood. I will also say that I have never had such a specific sense of foreboding as this before.
Anyway, off they went and got off to a good time with their friends.
Right up to 5 days after they'd gone. Early in the morning, my mum called me and told me that dad had been in an accident and was in hospital. I won't go into details, but to cut a long story short, he's still in hospital there, recovering and likely to return to the UK by the end of the week - however, his recuperation will be long and difficult.
Both my sister and I have flown out several times to be with him and give our mum practical and emotional support. While we were both there together one evening, I mentioned my sense of foreboding.
'That's funny', she said. 'I've had exactly the same feeling!'
We then mentioned it to mum, who - guess what? - said the same, except in her case she thought it would be her who'd be struck down!
It seems to me almost as if a shadow of a future event was felt. Indeed, I've often wondered whether it might be the case that somehow things that are ahead of us can, sometimes, make themselves apparent in the here and now, and this presentiment I had seems to fall into this category.