Manifestation

Day 335 / 366

There are times in life when I feel like we are living in a simulation. Just a few days ago a friend asked me if I believe in manifestation, the idea that you can literally wish something into reality. My answer was no. My brain has been so much accustomed to thinking logically that a concept like manifestation is automatically rejected.

This morning, I was looking for some good songs to listen to. For the past few months I have been listening to the same 20 or so songs, and I wanted something else for a change. I wished that there had been Spotify or YouTube music back in my school days so that I could have my playlists from back then saved and I could go back to them whenever I wanted. I knew that there would be songs that I listened to on repeat when I was a kid, and I don’t even remember them now. Every now and then I come across such a song and it’s a rush of nostalgia. I wished today that I could rediscover a song like that, but I knew it was a hopeless endeavour.

Cut to this evening, as I am mindlessly scrolling the Instagram Reels, I come across one that has this heavy metal song that sounded so familiar. I found that I knew all the words to it, but I couldn’t remember where I had heard it. When I looked it up on YouTube I realised why —

This song, was the theme song for WWE Monday Night Raw back when I used to watch the show as a kid. Back when we all thought that it was all real. And I remember that I had the mp3 of the song downloaded on my PC and it was part of my Winamp playlist.

I found what I was looking for. Was this manifestation? Whatever it was, I thought to myself that this would be a good topic to write a blog about. As I opened Medium on my phone, the first blog I saw on my “For You” page was a blog about Manifestation!

We are definitely living in a simulation.