Elephants and Sun

Well, it has been a couple of months since the last post. I guess blogger needs to update their security because it is quite the challenge to get to my blog.
Today my post was inspired by the ever-uneventful morning drive. You know those days where you feel like someone payed an elephant to sit on your face? Or maybe you are even feeling light and happy and have a personal fanner with a palm leaf (that would be fantastic). This sunny morning, I was feeling the former. "Aunty flow" had been visiting for the last couple of days, and I felt like aliens were playing kickball or that ancient Mayan hoop game in my tummy. So I turn on my radio and, of course, "I keep bleeding in love, I keep bleeding." How fantastic, even the radio was rubbing it in my face. I mean what did I ever do to him? Was he tired of playing the same pre-set stations?
I started thinking about "coincidences." Is there ever such a thing as a coincidence? Or does everything happen for a reason? Despite the number of cliches inherent in such questions, I wondered whether things that we see as coincidences could actually be signs. In some cases, take the movie Serendipity, for example (haha cliche). The protagonists were meant to be together. I'm not saying that just because you make eye contact with a guy twice while shopping that you were meant to get married, fornicate, and live happily ever after with your 5 children. However, maybe little things can be clues. After listening to the hypothetical bleeding of the singer on the radio, my current state, the radio offered relief: the next song was about good days, rising up, and staying strong. I took it as a sign that even though an elephant is on my face, a giant helicopter is on its way to lift it off so that I can finally see how beautiful and sunny the day is.