333 Words

by David Brown

I had just awakened from a deep place beyond dreams and glanced at the clock.  Again, it was exactly 3:33am, the same number that has popped up in my life for years, especially in the middle of the night. I finally realized some years ago that this was more than a coincidence, as this number kept showing up every other week or so in different ways, and sometimes twice in a day.

Once, at a Starbucks, I ordered a skinny hazelnut latte and with a gold member card the discount caused the price to be exactly $3.33.  My driver’s license had 333 as a part of the 10 digit number.  I regretted that I could have used that number once on a lottery ticket with four numbers. The day I thought of it the drawing on the very next day had the first three numbers as 333.  

It was most pronounced in the middle of the night, when I wake up without any external noise and glance at the clock only to see the red digital numbers of 3:33am right there staring at me.

 Once, I was telling a friend about this at their house, and at the end of the story which included numerous examples I glanced at the large antique maritime clock on the wall, and the time was exactly 3:33pm. My friends were surprised at the coincidence and could not help but believe my story. 

License plates on cars that I just happen to be behind sometimes have 333. One BMW had two sets: 333333. It is an ongoing phenomena that just keeps me guessing as to when I might see it again. Gas prices, text messages sent at exactly that time,. seating capacity at P.F. Changs in Eugene, Or. -  333.

There's something about it that is mystical, with synchronicity, and maybe a bit of quantum physics. I don't know why, but is it easier to live in the question than to try to figure it out rationally? Yes.

note: the word count for this blog : 333

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