My Crystal Ball WC 259

My Crystal Ball

I have an invisible crystal ball inside my head, which is so annoying.

Everyone around me will get excited about something and I will know instinctively that "something" will not be so.

One example: In 2016, I knew the Cubs would beat Cleveland (4-3) to win the World Series. Everyone made fun of me until they didn't.:

Another, more recent example: My children have all moved to another state, too many miles away to visit by car and I don’t fly. How convenient. They bought adjoining lots. One lot has a house the other doesn’t. My oldest daughter lives in the house on the smaller lot. My youngest daughter and her husband must first build a house on their parcel. As things stand, they are living in another town, 45 minutes away, in a house they remodeled.

My prediction (which I kept to myself, of course) was that they would sell the lot instead of building on it. I found out today that my prediction came true.

This leaves my oldest child alone in a strange, rural town with bad roads. She has suggested I move there and live with her. She is being polite to her aging mother.

I’m not sure I want to live in a rural town with a night person (my daughter) when I am a morning person. I predict trouble even though love abounds.

I have been purging and boxing things up, albeit half-heartedly because my crystal ball tells me the move won’t happen, for one reason or another.

We will see, God willing.