The Power of Repetition

I was living with my mom for the summer after college while I saved money to move back to Santa Barbara.  She did not have cable and I had a need to have noise on in the back round of my room. My mom had a vhs tape of some tv shows that she had recorded from earlier in the year when we did have cable. Since I only really cared about having some sort of jibber jabber in the back round I played that tape over and over in my room every time I was in there cleaning, reading or napping. The main show on this tape was about an African man who traveled around Ghana helping schools learn how to use the internet. I watched this show probably at least 100 over the summer, usually humming in the back round while I did things, other times I watched it as I drifted off to sleep.

Well the summer ended and I had saved enough money to move into my own apartment in Santa Barbara. I moved into a four-plex and was so excited to be there. Well right below me lived a young man from Africa, which is strange enough in Santa Barbara but I thought it was funny that I had just spent the whole summer watching a show about an African guy. "How funny is that!" I thought to myself but didn't think much more of it. After a couple months of living there I was on a friendly basis with my new neighbors and would hang out with them here and there. One day my neighbor from Africa said to me "I was in this documentary that was on TV, would you like to see it...?" My jaw dropped. No....way. I said yes, and he opened his laptop. Sure enough he played for me the exact documentary that I had spent the entire summer watching over and over. I was not only living in the same country, the same state, the same small beach town, but the very same small building, 5 feet away from the man that I had spent all summer watching on my tv due to my moms disinterest in continuing her cable television.
Now, at the time, I was not aware of the Law of Attraction in a formal way so I did not put the pieces together that a higher law was at work here. In retrospect, I see that I made this person a part of my daily life, for months, and the Universe brought him to me in the flesh. Why? I have no idea. I don't believe it was for any reason other than I attracted him, and somehow he attracted me. Maybe he wanted to attract a fan? Who knows. We were friends for the duration of my living in that building and I still see him around sometimes. And now that I am a practicing student of the Law of Attraction I can see that it indeed is a law and at work even when you are not aware of it, much like gravity. I see now that you need to be careful what you feed your consciousness through television and musical lyrics and the types of conversations you chose to engage in. Because you just might attract a person from half way across the world into your own back yard, literally.
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