Synchronicity

I’m pretty sure that synchronicity is one of my favorite words, both because of it’s sound and meaning. I’m a big believer.

Our good friend Merriam-Webster Online says:

1 : the quality or fact of being synchronous
2 : the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality — used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung

Wikipedia says, “Plainly put, it is the experience of having two (or more) things happen coincidentally in a manner that is meaningful to the person or persons experiencing them, where that meaning suggests an underlying pattern.”

I think that’s an excellent definition. Synchronicity is deeply personal and I personally believe that music and motion are linked via synchronicity. Something like the crescendo of a song happening at the same moment my car shifts gears or any other time the world feels absolutely and perfectly balanced. Or any time I say “that was weird.” I think it’s a hard word to explain simply because it means different things to different people. Or the perfect song coming on the radio just when you’re feeling down, happy, etc.

How about you? Do you believe in synchronicity? Have a better definition?