I believe in signs, synchronicities, and I believe that we have spirit guides who support and guide us throughout life. This could be in forms of gut feelings, intuitive insights, signs, or synchronicities. These can be interpreted as “winks” from the Universe.
I believe there is symbolism in all aspects of life. I am surely not someone who believes in coincidences. I believe that we have access to signs and synchronicities at all times of the day. You just have to be open, allow, and tune into them. And when you live life like that, your life becomes much more grand than the typical mundane. Every day, even the shittiest of days, still have so much meaning and purpose behind them. It is just the way my mom taught me to live.
I am Japanese and Norwegian. For those who really know me, know for some reason, since i was a kid, I have been particularly “proud” or felt a strong connection to this particular part of my family lineage. It’s as if my heart “leaps” every time something about Norway is mentioned. It is likely tied to a past life of some sort.
I had been wanting to visit Norway my whole entire life. Ever since I was a child, it was a big dream of mine. I told almost everybody. People always laughed it off. But I finally had the chance to go to Norway in 2019. I traveled from Oslo, through Voss, to Bergen, and Stavanger. I particularly felt a strong connection to Bergen. I even posted on IG at that time “Bergen, my favorite city in Norway.”
I don’t actually have too much history about my Norwegian family history. So it has always been a mystery to me. Just intuitive “knowings.” Which could be complete bullshit, but for how many cases of these gut feelings I have, I’m usually proven to be right.
Anyways, my mom did our ancestry and it turns out that my only known family that lived in Norway, actually resided in Bergen. 🤯
Fast forward to today. This is super fucking random BUT like I said. I don’t believe in coincidences and I also believe in symbolism. Especially when I “feel” it.
I’ve never watched the movie Frozen. Neither has my sister. We were scrolling through movies to watch and she randomly said “Frozen.” Not really her typical movie choice.
SPOILER ALERT: Basically the concept of Frozen is Elsa, the older sister has magical powers that she can’t control. Anything she touches turns to ice. She represses these powers. The movie ends with Elsa almost dying and her little sister, Anna, saved her through an “act of true love.”
The second movie is similar in the fashion that Elsa was again in danger to die, and Anna saves her. The movie ends with Elsa saying, “You saved my life for the second time!”
After that scene, Maki turned to me, she looked at me with these eyes that spoke much volume. But no words came out. She isn’t able to speak too much these days. I tried to get it out of her but she couldn’t communicate But she’s still there. She just looked so intently into my eyes. I could tell she was trying to tell me that there was a connection between those lines and us.
I could feel the message from her heart through her eyes.
Anyways, within the first 5 minutes of the movie I could already see all the Norwegian symbolism. I decided to look it up. Frozen is inspired by Norway and it is fact that there is much Norwegian symbolism through the movie. Starting from character names, characters, landscapes, clothing, food, etc. but the one thing that was most interesting to me was that the landscape of Frozen is purely inspired by a town in Norway, called Bergen.
I knew in that moment that we were meant to watch this movie together, at this specific time. A sign, a synchronicity, a wink from the universe. Her letting me know exactly how she felt while she isn’t able to communicate it. And the undeniable synchronistic symbolism.
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