Causality
Everything is a link in a chain, and the reason people scoff at causality is because they assume the chain is linear. But even in linear cases of cause and effect, the chain of events always looks more remarkable back to front. Because
I cut the card to an ace of spades
sounds less astonishing than
The ace of spades was in just that exact position that my fingers cut the pack at.
When I got accepted for this internship, human resources assigned me a mentor and phoned him about me. True to busy executive form, he must have scrawled my name on the top sheet of one of the mounds of paperwork in his office, and later cleared out everything into the recycle bin for reprinting. Some three weeks later, I get to the office, and my second assignment is to research the gas industry. I print out 200 sheets of information on paper from the recycle bin, and punch holes in them handful by handful.
Like cutting a pack of cards to the ace of spades, I pick up a handful of paper and see, on the next sheet down
my name
in just that exact position
where I just so happened to open to
out of a pile of papers
from three weeks' accumulation
of recycled paperwork
from everyone on this floor.
Somehow, it found its way to me.
I meant to say that it was like cutting a pack to the ace of spades - a thousand times in a row.
That's all. Mostly this entry has been an excuse to make the following statement: clearly, supernatural forces are, haha, at work.