Highlighter Stars.

Isn’t it weird when something that you were once oblivious to suddenly surrounds you? You find out about it once and then, boom, it’s being mentioned all the time. Was it that you never noticed it being mentioned before because it meant nothing to you, or is it really that coincedental, that this new thing really does keep intruding on your life?

When my mother was booking a trip to America a few years back, she told me that we were going to Providence, Rhode Island. Providence is the capital of RI but I’d never heard of it before my mother mentioned it to me.
Only a couple of days later, my mother was watching TV when she came across a show that’s set in, and called, ‘Providence’ (incidentally, I miss that show. I never saw the last series, and really wanted to know what happened to Syd in the burning surgery with the schizophrenic stalker). Not long after that, I found out that somebody well known - who I’d previously never taken an interest in, but just happened to be reading an article about - had grown up in Providence. This place I’d never heard of.

It’s happened many other times to me. The most recent example - and the one that prompted me to write/type this entry - is to do with an American TV show called ‘The Dog Whisperer’. It’s shown in America on the National Geographic Channel, and over here on Sky Three. While I was at university, my mother became obsessed with the show and now watches it every day. Obviously, I’d never heard of it before she somehow managed to stumble across it and decide to watch it.
Then, just now, I was reading Bones fanfiction (I was looking for ‘Woman in the Sand’ related fics, in case you’re interested), and I came across a story called ‘Temperance Brennan, the FBI Whisperer’. And, what do you know, the story is about Brennan watching ‘The Dog Whisperer’ and using the techniques on there to punish Booth for ruining her date.

Seriously, what are the odds? Would I have clicked on that story had I not known about ‘The Dog Whisperer’? Or would I have clicked on it but not had it mean anything to me because I’d never heard of the show? I’ve no way of knowing. All I know is that it was an extremely bizarre coincedence.