As a teenager, Sunday's were the best days. Sundays always meant playing and having fun with my cousin and some of our close friends. Our Sundays were pretty much routine; get up in the morning and go to church, leave to get some food and then it was video games for the rest of the day. Video games on a Sunday evening were the best way for us to relax and have fun before the work week started. The only quirky part of our routine was the event of finding parking.
Parking was a nightmare where my cousin used to live. In fact, there used to be times when we would have to circle his apartment complex for a good half-an-hour before ever finding any parking at all. Most of the times, what we would do is simply park closer to my house, which was about 15 minutes away on foot. Then one day, after having to circle and wait for a spot for nearly an hour, I outwardly said, "let me use my mental powers to create a spot for us." Of course, everyone in the car either chuckled or ignored me. I laughed a little when I said it. But hey, sitting in a car on a hot New York City summer day was the last thing I wanted to do.
So as we were making another circle heading down the street in front of my cousin's apartment lobby, I yelled out, "we will get a parking spot this time...SPOT....YES....NOW." Everyone in the car started laughing at my ridiculous parking spot spell. Hey, I laughed too after the words came out of my mouth. "Where in the world did I get, 'spot yes now' from?" I asked myself internally. But while we were all laughing, we just happened to pull up to what seemed like an empty space right in front of his building.
Everyone in the car saw the empty space, but most of us (including myself) thought that there must be a fire hydrant there or a big pothole in the area. As we slowly pulled up to the empty space, we all looked with amazement to the fact that it was the perfect parking spot. In fact, we were so shocked that we had to really look around to make sure that there wasn't something that we were missing---like a no parking sign or something. But low and behold, it really was an empty spot right in front of the door of his building complex. My cousin joked, "Wow, I think your powers worked." We all laughed and went on with the rest of our day, having fun and playing games.
The following Sunday we were pulling up to the block again and we couldn't find a spot. Sarcastically, my cousin's girlfriend says, "Steve, why don't you use your powers to get us a spot again?" So just to be comical, I bowed my head, as if going into a deep trance and then I yelled out, "SPOT YES NOW!!!" We all couldn't help but laugh after I said it. But no sooner did I say it, did a car, right across the street from my cousin's building, pull right out and drove off.
Ok, now we all were a little shocked and "weirded" out at the same time. It was like being in one of those Twilight Zone moments and hearing the eerie theme song in your head. For me, it was like finding money on the street---an unexpected but pleasant surprise.
The next Sunday, I said it again, and we found a good spot to park, again. It was then, that I actually started to believe that I could make a parking spot open. Of course, when you are young, you can believe anything, just as long as it keeps working. And as truth be told, for over a three year period of going over to my cousin's place for games on Sunday, every time I said, "spot yes now," we always found a good spot to park. I even remember one Sunday that everyone in the car told me not to say it, just to see what would happen. And we would be searching around and around for a spot, up until I said those three magical words.
Now I am not a mystic or magician. Were those three words some hidden magical spell from God which grants the proclaimer the mighty power of any great parking spot on Earth? No. But what made me think back about this story in my life, was after watching the program The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. One of the main aspects of the book & movie is the explanation of the law of attraction. This states that the things that you think about and believe repeatedly are attracted into your life and become you.
Back then I had no real understanding of how our thoughts are the key ingredients in shaping our lives. So when I thought about that story in my past, I realized that it was my belief in saying those three words which produced a positive effect.
|
Priscilla Lalisse Website