Is it just me?

Isn't it weird how when you are faced with some major "thing" in the your life, you start to see "messages" everywhere? Have they always been there and you just haven't noticed? Or does the universe start throwing them at you when you need to see them?

( cut again for more on the same...in which I continue my mid-life crisis rambling and also connect everything in the world to my problem and to SPN )

BTW, I am so annoyed at LJ and how it's messing up coding these days....