I was in her office reviewing paperwork for an upcoming orientation with her. She was reviewing the revisions I'd made to various documents while simultaneously checking emails on her cell phone. While scrolling through her phone she casually says to me "My husband is on his way in the office." and I casually respond, "Oh he just texted you?' "No, she says. I just know he's coming. I think to myself, well, I don't hear him in the lobby talking amongst the other doctors so I ask, "How do you know that?" She smiles and points her head towards the door leading with her chin and says, "just watch he's going to walk through the door in a few seconds."Almost immediately after the last word had fallen off of her lips, in walks her husband. He stood in the door way with his confident, calm, and always welcoming demeanor; seemingly very opposite from the personality of his wife. He looks back and forth at us and notices my jaw dropped in disbelieved and the pleasant smile of satisfaction on his wife's face and asks "What?" My boss answers, telling him how she'd told me that he was on the way into the office and how I just could not understand how she'd known that without him telling her. He replied "Yes, We do that to each other all the time.
Still in disbelief I repeatedly ask "How did you do that?" at least 3 to 4 times. "Are you sure he didn't text you or email you to tell that he was coming?", I asked. She slid her cellphone towards me and replied, "Check my phone. I've known that man since Kindergarten, we've been together 30 years, I can sense when he's near; I can just feel it." Filled with amazement, disbelief, and a rising feeling of optimism, I say to her, "I've never witnessed anything like that in my life!"
I swear to you right at the moment I Very Randomly thought back to the "Peter Pan" movie (2003) when tinker bell died because not enough people believed in her to keep the magic within her alive. So, Peter and the others shouted as loudly as they could. "I do believe in Fairies, I Do, I Do until Tinkerbell was willed back to life. The teenage/young adult woman in me who once dreamed of living out the scenes from various romantic movies that I so hopelessly watched and hoped to experience for myself one day, shouted as loud as I could inside my mind, "I do Believe in Soul Mates. I Do, I Do." "I DO BELIEVE IN SOUL MATES! I DO, I DO!" I willed my metaphoric fairy back to life. Today I believe in the magic of love again. I have always known that love is magical but somewhere along the way I allowed my fairy to die because I too like Peter didn't believe enough anymore.
