Last night my husband & I caught up on some TiVo and we watched a Dr. Who episode from the 2005 season. For those of you who are Dr. Who fans, you'll know what I'm talking about. For those of you who don't...there's a message here for you too. :)
The episode is titled "Father's Day". It features the main female character requesting Dr. Who to take her back to the day her father died in 1987. He agreed, but he was not really into the request. He knew trouble was brewing just by saying yes.
They went back and she watched a hit-and-run driver plow her father down. He was on his way to a wedding. Her mom used to always tell her what a wonderful man he was. It turns out the mother was not lying about how he was killed.
Back in 1987 she did not listen and went back again to try to save him. She created a bad paradox because there were 3 of her in that reality. The 2005 one, another 2005 her, and the 1987 one. They say if you go back and alter the fabric of time then you put everything at risk. That's a person that should not be walking the planet. I don't want to ruin the episode for you all that have not seen it, but like any good SciFi series, this one really makes you think.
There was a motif of a vase with a ribbon around it in this episode. It was the gift the girl's dad was bringing to the wedding. It turns out her father is not the man she was told he was (big surprise there). In 1987 he dropped the vase (or urn if you will) when he got mowed down by the hit-and-run. We see the vase shatter over and over again as history keeps repeating itself.
Today I pulled into my gym parking lot. Right next to my Jeep lie a vase broken into several pieces. It freaked me out. It looked very much like the urn/vase from the Dr. Who episode I watched just last night. There it lay...for no reason. Just in the back of a string of strip-mall stores. I called my husband to tell him. He freaked out a little.
Later when I got home and we drove to the matinee of XMen (it rocked, by the way)...we chatted about the significance of the vase/urn that I saw today. It still gives me the chills. I believe in signs. I beleive in omens. I believe that this vase was there to send me a message.
And that is that I can't change the past. I can't change all the bad shit that went down this week in my life. And if I could somehow change it it would just mess up everything else. Things happen for a reason. SciFi rarely enters into our lives (well okay unless we stay in the haunted room at the Hotel Del Coronado, which even secret service men have been afraid of...). When a weird moment like that occurs we can do nothing but take a step back and think. None of us would want a paradox to mess up the way our lives are and the lives we take for granted.
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Sometime after that my aunt and her husband went to the movies and saw some movie about how the dead communicate by leaving dimes on the street. It's like you find pennies all the time, but to find a dime is pretty significant.
That night as they left the theatre, she went to get in the car and there was dime lying in the street. And then after that she started finding dimes everywhere. She even started saving them in a jar. And they would always be found at some highly significant time.
Like one day she went to take my mother to lunch for her birthday and she found a dime as she was walking into the restaurant. She told her the story -- and my mother, the total skeptic, non-believer of anything, was in tears! After that, my mother started to find dimes. And now on a few occasions so have I.
For some reason actors in the UK have this major fear of being typecast. I've heard that the main characters felt this way for some strange reason (hello, Star Trek, 24, Lost, etc.) I guess the main guy on Dr. Who quit after the first season (or the 2nd) and the girl followed shortly after. Or as my husband just yelled in a British accent from the kitchen: "They don't want to be typecast, you know..."
That's interesting because one of my favorite authors (Jodi Picoult) told an amazing story about finding pennies left by ghosts. She did not believe as she's a 'show me the facts' kind of girl...but the pennies showed up in a locked attic.
It came thru loud and clear and will give me the chills forever.
I bet you tomorrow that vase/urn will be gone from the gym parking lot. Of all the spaces I parked right next to it. :)
Don't step on any butterflies! Ever read that Sci Fi story.........?
I know what movie you mean. And I think you mean Demi Moore's husband after Bruce Willis.
Yes, that's what it's called, I could not think of the right word!
They always interest me and I'm glad I could share it with you all.
That I did...no matter how much I want to travel with Dr. Who I think it would really wear on me after a while. :)