Destiny's Force
March 15th 2008 13:14
DESTINY’S FORCE
Jospeh McCullam was a typical single male who loved his life and work equally. He worked for a Coal, gold, gem and smealting firm in the north west of Queensland across from Cairns, where he normally lived. He was the metalurgist and coal mining engineer and his mate Carl Longfellow was the gem, gold and mineral expert. For ten years now he had been having a reoccurring dream with shadowy figures, holidays, sunshine, rain, train trips, ocean voyages, and a shadowy black female figure, none of which would ever really come into focus. Or so it seemed to him.
Emily Braithwaite was a typical single woman with her own style of dreams for her future work life and normal life. Yet for ten years now she too had been having the same type of dream Joseph had been having. Her shadowy figure though was that of a Man, but all of the rest was the same. She worked as the personal assistant to a very important lawyer in his own firm in Perth and her best friend Samantha Snodgrass owned the second hand book store which her parents had bequeathed to her on their death, two years before.
Both Joseph and Emily had given up long ago of getting psychiatric help and counselling help, because none of it worked. Both their parents thought they were a bit daft and secretly worried over them all of the time. Even their brothers and sisters and best friends had succumbed to secretly praying for them.
Ten years earlier there had been a big electric cyclone called Marth, which had swept through Perth and record floods were everywhere through the streets of Perth and up to one hundred miles around Perth. This storm had lasted thirteen days. At the same time in Cairns Joseph was hired on as the Coal Mining and Metalurgist Engineer. Just as Joseph was hired the next day an unsuspected cyclone called Patrick, had created itself out of o where, and it had hit Cairns badly, with record floods every where. The storm had lasted eleven days and the damaged spread out to one hundred miles around Cairns. The amount of electric current and static build up in both of those storms caused great havoc all over Australia, and especially between Perth and Cairns.
As their memories return to that eventful day, they realise that their dreams and their destinies were sealed in those two storms. Why, because during both occassions in the middle of each storm They had been driving their cars to get home in a hurry, and to batten down the hatches in their homes once more. All worked had ceased during these storms and as they got into their front doors a bolt of lightning had hit their homes and an electric shock went shrieking through their walls, doors and rooms. As they were closing their doors they still had their hands on the door handles when the electric shock hit them. They were both knocked out and a neighbour having seen lightning strike their homes and heard their screams called the ambulance just in case. This kind act saved their lives.
From that moment on the dream was established in their souls. They were compelled by some kind of mysterious force which carried them on thousands of miles journeys each holliday time. For Joseph he was compelled to go to Perth each summer holliday, and Emily was compelled to go to Cairns. They both took a train on their first and second leg of the journey then a plane trip on the last leg of the journey.
They were continually passing each other at Sydney Central Railway Station on the way to the airport subway station. They past each other every time, as they were always collecting their bags at the train station almost within three minutes of each other. They always looked and smiled at each other as they passed one another, never realising how destiny’s force was going to propel them together.
Almost always there is a re-occuring dream where by there is this large dark shadow of a man in Emm’s dream and a large dark Woman in Jo’s dream. Neither of them remember why they had chosen to go on long extended holidays each year from then to the opposite remote corners of Australia. This dream always seemed to be out of focus for most of the time and they were constantly passing each other in transit on the seond and third leg of the holiday journey.
Joseph was 5’ 9”in height, 35 years of age, slim to medium build, weighed about 14 stone (95 kilo), had brown eyes, short blond hair, long finger nails and a big smile. Emily though was 5’ 4” in height, 29 years of age, slim to tubby build, weighed about 10 Stone (63.5 kilo), had blue grey eys, short finger nails, Shoulder length brown fine stranded hair, and a slow working friendly smile. Samantha 5’ 5” in height, 30 years of age, with a slim athletic build, brown eyes, blond hair, weighed about 8 stone (50 kilo). Carl was 6’3” in height, 37 years of age, tall with a slim build and weighed about 17 stone (107 kilo), he had green eyes, jet black hair, short finger nails and a broad warm smile.
Each of them had a happy substantial way about them. Each of them had a skeleton in the closet. Each of them disliked something immensely, and they all loved the out door life style. The only thing wrong with that though was they had no way of achieving their dreams by themselves. They had to be practical and apply sound business reasoning and needs to their daily lives. They all had to work and save money, to get the small things in life. But this was their down fall as well, till the moment of the electric cyclones had blasted them with an electric shock and infused in them the same tormenting dream.
* * *
Sunshine and day light wind and rain and storms sweep through each others dreams and scenes of the ocean and rivers and streams and mountains hang on the peripheral edges of each scene. Kids seem to come and go and grow up and stay and some slave and one or two return and music and songs and holidays and anniversaries come and go through the fabric of each others dreams. Trains and train stations, aeroplane rides and ski rides come and go. Lunches and arguments come and go. Children and grandchildren come and go in and out of some dreams. Friend’s names and faces come and go. And a big happy celebration happens then fades, just before the big explosion, which wakes them up.
And as always, a sense of impending doom looms heavily in their dreams and then a double crash causes them to wake up sweating and shivering and frightened each time as the explosion occurs in their dream. After an hour or so they go back to sleep. Ten years later, a train accident just south of Cairns, cancels a part of a trip for Joseph from Cairns to Sydney, makes him take the train to Townsville then a plane to Brisbane, then another plane trip from Brisbane to Sydney, and then one more to Perth. The train arrives late in Sydney from Melbourne to Sydney and Emily has to take plane from there to Cairns. It had been raining heavily in Sydney for five days straight, and last night it had cleared and every one thought their journey’s would proceed with any further delays or accidents.
But God had other ideas. A freak storm was quickly building just off north part of the north Island of New Zealand and heading across the ocean to Wollongong which swerves straight north to Sydney just as their two planes take off and the wind gusts are so bad and unexpected that Joseph’s plane is rocked and turned back across the runway right into the path of Emily’s plane which was banking to the right and taking a wide circle to the north, just after its take off. As the wind gusts peaked at 200klms per hr, Joseph’s plane was forced to bank left then right and then north, and it was pushed headlong into the tail end section of Emily’s plane, cutting it in half and the two planes plummeted into the sea just south of Sydney.
Just as each plane went into the water their emergency crews scrambled bleeding and ragged and short of breath, to the screams all about them. They then moved to the life jackets, the escape hatch doors of the plane and to the safety inflatable emergency raft’s doors as well. Sea water was flooding into each plane with each second and a metre of depth they were sinking to. Many passengers were still trapped into their seats by their seat belts. But Emily and Joseph had been flung out of their planes on impact along with a lot of luggage and debris. One of which was an inflatable life raft. They both swam to it from opposite sides of it not knowing the two of them were heading for the same raft.
As they got to the raft almost at the same time, Joseph hears Emily pitiful sighs and sounds of deep heart felt sobbing. He swims around the raft and finds this dishevelled badly shaken young looking woman. She was beautiful to look at and easy on the eye. Joseph reached out and touched her arm and she screamed and in sever panic her elbow caught him under his jaw snapping his head back and knocking him out. In her wild melee she caught hold of something that was like a big bundle of heavy clothing bales or something, which was beginning to sink and pull her down. She let go of it and as she did her hand touched his curly hair and in a sudden jolt of memory she realised what it was she had touched.
Quickly she grabbed onto the sinking man and pulled him up one handed and his eyes opened and through blurred eyes said, thanks mate, you saved my life. What happened to that crazy screaming woman that knocked me out? A little bit too far away they could hear a bit of the other passengers noises of the aeroplanes and their crews making good head way to finding and saving anyone else from the crash site. Emily knew they could not be seen nor heard because of the fierceness of the storm. Joseph recovered enough to haul himself and then his new mate into the raft but he could not quite focus his vision nor his hearing. He still did not recognise he had Emily on the raft with him and not a man.
For two more days the storm raged and blew them further and further out to sea. They were the only ones not accounted for. There were fifteen dead twenty five severely wounded and forty who had to be treated for shock and mild burns. Most of these were Men and children. Of the dead and severely injured 90% were women and ten percent were Men. The rescue crews and the police were kept extremely busy for the next five days as they searched and searched for survivors with no luck. On the sixth day however, a light plane heading off from Lakes entrance to King island near the north east coast of Tasmania, spotted their raft floating adrift and radioed its position to the Naval station on King Island before landing on King Island. The pilot went to the airport office and got on the phone to the coast guard and the local newspaper, and a naval vessel was dispatched to that area at once. It took nearly an hour to get a full crew up before she ship could leave port and then it took another three hours before they actually located the raft with Joseph and Emily in it.
It was on the fourth day of floating adrift on the oceans currents that Joseph’s sight, smell, feelings, senses and hearing returned to normal. He and Emily used what little there was of the emergency rations and water still attached to the raft to survive on. They exchanged their names and a small portion of their stories they could muster, because both of them were badly beaten and shaken. And both had lost a bit of blood from the various scratches and cuts they had encountered on the way out of the plane. Both had concussion, migraines and dehydration, as the water and food rations they found only lasted three days. Between the forth and six days they slept from sheer exhaustion and dehydration. Upon being rescued by the Naval ship from king Island, they were rushed to the Islands local hospital and taken good care of. It was on the tenth day that they remembered their names and got them both mixed up. Emily said she was Emily McCullam and Joseph said his name was Braithwaite. On the eleventh and twelfth days they were siting up in their hospital beds across from each other, and liking what they saw of each other they made a pact to keep in touch with each other for ever once they had been released to go home from their hospital beds. As they were leaving the hospital on a bright and sunny June midmorning, Joseph and Emily slipped on the small smooth weather beaten wooden steps into each others arms and they laughed at each other as they helped themselves up. As their eyes met, they knew their contact time would be for ever after in marriage.
Fifty years of great married life was about to be celebrated by Jospeh and Emily as they sat on their tropical North West piece of Western Australia, farm house verandah, on their one hundred and forty thousand acres with their seven children and fifteen grandchildren. It was their fiftieth celebration of their near death experience, rescue and marriage. Every one of their family and friends were gathered together for this fantastic milestone. There were over two hundred guests and relations and friends attending it. Even the Local Presbyterian Minister and his young wife had flown in especially for it. They recalled their times all over again, to one and all, especially about the dream they had shared for ten years before they actually met on that fateful day, fifty years earlier. It was on the tenth day when Jospeh’s vision and smell and colour and hearing was restored. It was also the same day that ‘Dae Jar Vu’ also hit them and their dream had exploded in front of them into a clear vision. The dark shadowy Woman and Man in each of their dreams finally cleared away and they saw they were looking at themselves in the hospital room, as it actually was depicted in their dreams. They call it their dream with a twister in it, which took Destriny's Force to work is magic in their lives and since though it had taken ten years, to bring them together, happily for ever.
The End.
Jospeh McCullam was a typical single male who loved his life and work equally. He worked for a Coal, gold, gem and smealting firm in the north west of Queensland across from Cairns, where he normally lived. He was the metalurgist and coal mining engineer and his mate Carl Longfellow was the gem, gold and mineral expert. For ten years now he had been having a reoccurring dream with shadowy figures, holidays, sunshine, rain, train trips, ocean voyages, and a shadowy black female figure, none of which would ever really come into focus. Or so it seemed to him.
Emily Braithwaite was a typical single woman with her own style of dreams for her future work life and normal life. Yet for ten years now she too had been having the same type of dream Joseph had been having. Her shadowy figure though was that of a Man, but all of the rest was the same. She worked as the personal assistant to a very important lawyer in his own firm in Perth and her best friend Samantha Snodgrass owned the second hand book store which her parents had bequeathed to her on their death, two years before.
Both Joseph and Emily had given up long ago of getting psychiatric help and counselling help, because none of it worked. Both their parents thought they were a bit daft and secretly worried over them all of the time. Even their brothers and sisters and best friends had succumbed to secretly praying for them.
Ten years earlier there had been a big electric cyclone called Marth, which had swept through Perth and record floods were everywhere through the streets of Perth and up to one hundred miles around Perth. This storm had lasted thirteen days. At the same time in Cairns Joseph was hired on as the Coal Mining and Metalurgist Engineer. Just as Joseph was hired the next day an unsuspected cyclone called Patrick, had created itself out of o where, and it had hit Cairns badly, with record floods every where. The storm had lasted eleven days and the damaged spread out to one hundred miles around Cairns. The amount of electric current and static build up in both of those storms caused great havoc all over Australia, and especially between Perth and Cairns.
As their memories return to that eventful day, they realise that their dreams and their destinies were sealed in those two storms. Why, because during both occassions in the middle of each storm They had been driving their cars to get home in a hurry, and to batten down the hatches in their homes once more. All worked had ceased during these storms and as they got into their front doors a bolt of lightning had hit their homes and an electric shock went shrieking through their walls, doors and rooms. As they were closing their doors they still had their hands on the door handles when the electric shock hit them. They were both knocked out and a neighbour having seen lightning strike their homes and heard their screams called the ambulance just in case. This kind act saved their lives.
From that moment on the dream was established in their souls. They were compelled by some kind of mysterious force which carried them on thousands of miles journeys each holliday time. For Joseph he was compelled to go to Perth each summer holliday, and Emily was compelled to go to Cairns. They both took a train on their first and second leg of the journey then a plane trip on the last leg of the journey.
They were continually passing each other at Sydney Central Railway Station on the way to the airport subway station. They past each other every time, as they were always collecting their bags at the train station almost within three minutes of each other. They always looked and smiled at each other as they passed one another, never realising how destiny’s force was going to propel them together.
Almost always there is a re-occuring dream where by there is this large dark shadow of a man in Emm’s dream and a large dark Woman in Jo’s dream. Neither of them remember why they had chosen to go on long extended holidays each year from then to the opposite remote corners of Australia. This dream always seemed to be out of focus for most of the time and they were constantly passing each other in transit on the seond and third leg of the holiday journey.
Joseph was 5’ 9”in height, 35 years of age, slim to medium build, weighed about 14 stone (95 kilo), had brown eyes, short blond hair, long finger nails and a big smile. Emily though was 5’ 4” in height, 29 years of age, slim to tubby build, weighed about 10 Stone (63.5 kilo), had blue grey eys, short finger nails, Shoulder length brown fine stranded hair, and a slow working friendly smile. Samantha 5’ 5” in height, 30 years of age, with a slim athletic build, brown eyes, blond hair, weighed about 8 stone (50 kilo). Carl was 6’3” in height, 37 years of age, tall with a slim build and weighed about 17 stone (107 kilo), he had green eyes, jet black hair, short finger nails and a broad warm smile.
Each of them had a happy substantial way about them. Each of them had a skeleton in the closet. Each of them disliked something immensely, and they all loved the out door life style. The only thing wrong with that though was they had no way of achieving their dreams by themselves. They had to be practical and apply sound business reasoning and needs to their daily lives. They all had to work and save money, to get the small things in life. But this was their down fall as well, till the moment of the electric cyclones had blasted them with an electric shock and infused in them the same tormenting dream.
* * *
Sunshine and day light wind and rain and storms sweep through each others dreams and scenes of the ocean and rivers and streams and mountains hang on the peripheral edges of each scene. Kids seem to come and go and grow up and stay and some slave and one or two return and music and songs and holidays and anniversaries come and go through the fabric of each others dreams. Trains and train stations, aeroplane rides and ski rides come and go. Lunches and arguments come and go. Children and grandchildren come and go in and out of some dreams. Friend’s names and faces come and go. And a big happy celebration happens then fades, just before the big explosion, which wakes them up.
And as always, a sense of impending doom looms heavily in their dreams and then a double crash causes them to wake up sweating and shivering and frightened each time as the explosion occurs in their dream. After an hour or so they go back to sleep. Ten years later, a train accident just south of Cairns, cancels a part of a trip for Joseph from Cairns to Sydney, makes him take the train to Townsville then a plane to Brisbane, then another plane trip from Brisbane to Sydney, and then one more to Perth. The train arrives late in Sydney from Melbourne to Sydney and Emily has to take plane from there to Cairns. It had been raining heavily in Sydney for five days straight, and last night it had cleared and every one thought their journey’s would proceed with any further delays or accidents.
But God had other ideas. A freak storm was quickly building just off north part of the north Island of New Zealand and heading across the ocean to Wollongong which swerves straight north to Sydney just as their two planes take off and the wind gusts are so bad and unexpected that Joseph’s plane is rocked and turned back across the runway right into the path of Emily’s plane which was banking to the right and taking a wide circle to the north, just after its take off. As the wind gusts peaked at 200klms per hr, Joseph’s plane was forced to bank left then right and then north, and it was pushed headlong into the tail end section of Emily’s plane, cutting it in half and the two planes plummeted into the sea just south of Sydney.
Just as each plane went into the water their emergency crews scrambled bleeding and ragged and short of breath, to the screams all about them. They then moved to the life jackets, the escape hatch doors of the plane and to the safety inflatable emergency raft’s doors as well. Sea water was flooding into each plane with each second and a metre of depth they were sinking to. Many passengers were still trapped into their seats by their seat belts. But Emily and Joseph had been flung out of their planes on impact along with a lot of luggage and debris. One of which was an inflatable life raft. They both swam to it from opposite sides of it not knowing the two of them were heading for the same raft.
As they got to the raft almost at the same time, Joseph hears Emily pitiful sighs and sounds of deep heart felt sobbing. He swims around the raft and finds this dishevelled badly shaken young looking woman. She was beautiful to look at and easy on the eye. Joseph reached out and touched her arm and she screamed and in sever panic her elbow caught him under his jaw snapping his head back and knocking him out. In her wild melee she caught hold of something that was like a big bundle of heavy clothing bales or something, which was beginning to sink and pull her down. She let go of it and as she did her hand touched his curly hair and in a sudden jolt of memory she realised what it was she had touched.
Quickly she grabbed onto the sinking man and pulled him up one handed and his eyes opened and through blurred eyes said, thanks mate, you saved my life. What happened to that crazy screaming woman that knocked me out? A little bit too far away they could hear a bit of the other passengers noises of the aeroplanes and their crews making good head way to finding and saving anyone else from the crash site. Emily knew they could not be seen nor heard because of the fierceness of the storm. Joseph recovered enough to haul himself and then his new mate into the raft but he could not quite focus his vision nor his hearing. He still did not recognise he had Emily on the raft with him and not a man.
For two more days the storm raged and blew them further and further out to sea. They were the only ones not accounted for. There were fifteen dead twenty five severely wounded and forty who had to be treated for shock and mild burns. Most of these were Men and children. Of the dead and severely injured 90% were women and ten percent were Men. The rescue crews and the police were kept extremely busy for the next five days as they searched and searched for survivors with no luck. On the sixth day however, a light plane heading off from Lakes entrance to King island near the north east coast of Tasmania, spotted their raft floating adrift and radioed its position to the Naval station on King Island before landing on King Island. The pilot went to the airport office and got on the phone to the coast guard and the local newspaper, and a naval vessel was dispatched to that area at once. It took nearly an hour to get a full crew up before she ship could leave port and then it took another three hours before they actually located the raft with Joseph and Emily in it.
It was on the fourth day of floating adrift on the oceans currents that Joseph’s sight, smell, feelings, senses and hearing returned to normal. He and Emily used what little there was of the emergency rations and water still attached to the raft to survive on. They exchanged their names and a small portion of their stories they could muster, because both of them were badly beaten and shaken. And both had lost a bit of blood from the various scratches and cuts they had encountered on the way out of the plane. Both had concussion, migraines and dehydration, as the water and food rations they found only lasted three days. Between the forth and six days they slept from sheer exhaustion and dehydration. Upon being rescued by the Naval ship from king Island, they were rushed to the Islands local hospital and taken good care of. It was on the tenth day that they remembered their names and got them both mixed up. Emily said she was Emily McCullam and Joseph said his name was Braithwaite. On the eleventh and twelfth days they were siting up in their hospital beds across from each other, and liking what they saw of each other they made a pact to keep in touch with each other for ever once they had been released to go home from their hospital beds. As they were leaving the hospital on a bright and sunny June midmorning, Joseph and Emily slipped on the small smooth weather beaten wooden steps into each others arms and they laughed at each other as they helped themselves up. As their eyes met, they knew their contact time would be for ever after in marriage.
Fifty years of great married life was about to be celebrated by Jospeh and Emily as they sat on their tropical North West piece of Western Australia, farm house verandah, on their one hundred and forty thousand acres with their seven children and fifteen grandchildren. It was their fiftieth celebration of their near death experience, rescue and marriage. Every one of their family and friends were gathered together for this fantastic milestone. There were over two hundred guests and relations and friends attending it. Even the Local Presbyterian Minister and his young wife had flown in especially for it. They recalled their times all over again, to one and all, especially about the dream they had shared for ten years before they actually met on that fateful day, fifty years earlier. It was on the tenth day when Jospeh’s vision and smell and colour and hearing was restored. It was also the same day that ‘Dae Jar Vu’ also hit them and their dream had exploded in front of them into a clear vision. The dark shadowy Woman and Man in each of their dreams finally cleared away and they saw they were looking at themselves in the hospital room, as it actually was depicted in their dreams. They call it their dream with a twister in it, which took Destriny's Force to work is magic in their lives and since though it had taken ten years, to bring them together, happily for ever.
The End.
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