Sometimes life feels like autopilot. One's motions are mechanical, responses automatic, and thoughts streamlined. When one lives completely in the moment, the moment can be meaningless because it's nothing out of the ordinary.
From this position, it sometimes takes something great to knock an individual out of their living through the motions. This event can be something very positive, but this event can also be something very unsettling. An event that contradicts the order of things can make one realize why even the most basic procedures and events happen as they do.
I had such an event happen to me. I was attending a high school basement party; I was 18 and the oldest person. As I descend the stairs to the basement, I notice the food set out on a ledge. The lights were dimmed, so I couldn't exactly make out what I was eating. It looked like M&M's. I took a handful and tossed them into my mouth. I masticated, and discovered instantly that the bowl contained M&M's mixed with Skittles.
Was this some kind of sick joke? Nothing else about the party would suggest that. Additionally, nobody else mentioned anything about the two candies being mixed. It was an event that happened, but for no known reason or intent, and for all I know, I might have been the only person that was affected by it.
The Irish have a concept that some places were not only holy, but also "thin," the distance between the said places and the spirit world was minimal. That's how I feel about this particular event. It was such an abstraction from reality that it made me question the actual foundations of existence and order in the universe. Maybe M&Ms and Skittles belong together.
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