Instantly Familiar Eyes - By: CG Walters

Have you ever met instantly familiar eyes, realizing an unnerving connection with someone on your first encounter? Were you unable to deny the instinctive familiarity between the two of you, even though open acknowledgement of such a bond might thoroughly disrupt the life and the view of the world that you held and were comfortable with?

Your own experience of such an unexplainable connection may not have been so intense. Every now and then we are merely blessed to meet the eyes of a stranger and feel greeted by a friend that you don’t yet know. Sometimes it is only the friendly nature of the person before you. Some people just have that open charity about them. A given incidence of this sense of unity may be no more than our own momentarily unguarded response to another human being. We need connections with others, but fear of what we are told is a harsh world often trains the willingness to connect out of us.

It is a comforting experience when the other person also feels that familiarity and neither of you are afraid to express that confusing sense of relationship. On occasion the ensuing conversion makes a friendship that lasts. Other times the experience is no more than a mutually shared smile or word with another person that you have never seen before or may never see again—a moment of feeling a little less isolated.

You may even have experienced the much stronger tie spoken of earlier. Despite those feelings, you may not have felt yourself to be in an emotional position to share a word between you. That silence, however, probably did nothing to diminish your certainty of the bond. Perhaps the union was mutually acknowledged, but both knew there should be nothing more explicitly expressed in this world.

Stephen Simon, in his book The Force Is with You, shares a story of a friend who was driving through a part of the country she had never been in before. At a stoplight, she “recognized” a man that was crossing the street. Just at that moment, he stopped, turned and looked at her. She knew that she had never seen this fellow before, but was equally certain that she knew him. He came around to the window of her car and said, “We’re only supposed to say hello this time.” He smiled and then continued across the street. She never saw him again.

“My wife told me that even though her back was to me in a class, when she first heard my voice it struck fear in her heart for she knew this was the person that she had ‘expected’ since she was a little girl—but the timing was completely wrong. Fortunately for me, such connections are not governed by the convenience of our everyday lives.

Sometimes we are completely unaware of such a bond until it starts to pull us into some very unexplainable experiences. Acknowledgement of such common yet unexplainable bonds might not only be sometimes comforting, but vital to our health, and even to the survival of our increasingly fragmented and confrontational world.

"There is a legend that the life-force of the Collective Consciousness begins to weaken when true bonding between those who should share love is not being practiced. Like all magic, when the magic of loving commitment is not believed in, or not being practiced, it begins to fade and die."--Sacred Vow, CG Walters

About the Author

C.G. Walters (http://myspace.com/sacred_vow )is a novelist whose work focuses on the multi-dimensional aspects of our loves and our lives. His novel, Sacred Vow is Highly recommended. Midwest Book Review.

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