Reply #73: An interesting thing happened to me once..

[AsahinaKimi]

My Grandfather had a house in upstate New York. We were probably a few hours away from Cape Cod and my mother and father had always wanted to visit there. Since it was a Saturday and the family had no plans, they thought it would be great to just drive there. Grabbing a map, my mother would navigate, while my father drove, and I was in the back seat. I don't recall how old I was then, maybe 10 years old. I had never been to the Atlantic ocean before. I had grown up around the Pacific, so the idea of seeing a new ocean for the first time, was thrilling to me.

I had absolutely no expectations about how things would look, but it seemed that sort of an hour or so into it, I had this feeling that I had been here before. I told my mother about it and she waved it off as my imagination, until we were driving up a long hill, and I told here there would be a bridge coming up around the corner. Sure enough, as we came over the hill I saw it..

Now this wasn't one of those big huge things you see in New York City, but just a simple expansion over a gully. But I had seen it before we had come over the hill, and I had never been there before. It was also true that I had said there would be a red barn, with a haywagon out infront with a spotted pony tied to the wooden gate.. and sure enough there it was. It was almost as if I knew this place..

My mother waved it off, however, my father simply smiled and said that kami must have loved me, for they were whispering into my ear.


By the time, we reached the beaches, I felt totally at home..and even Providence town seemed like a place I had once been to, though I had never been in my entire life.