We often hear that the things we love a lot are not easily broken or the moment we start thinking about buying a new version of something, the old one gets broken or lost somehow.
I always thought they are likely to happen as I have grown up in Japan where people find gods and goddesses in everything. So it is pretty natural for me to believe that things which are categorized as inorganic have their own mind.
But even so, when I noticed that some of my wind up watches stopped keeping correct time whenever I covetously searched vintage watches on the internet, I got stunned. At first, I tried to think it was just coincidence (because it seemed a little spooky) but it kept happening again and again. Finally, one of the watches stopped working at all. One day, I thought to clean the broken watch before I sent it to a watch repairer. I gently polished the metal part of the watch with a cloth and miraculously it started to move again and worked perfectly for 5 or 6 months.
The watch got broken again when I wanted a new watch and whatever I did it didn’t move its hands. After a few months, I saw the broken watch and thought “I own many watches but this one is undoubtedly one of the cutest.” I had a hunch that this watch might start moving again, so I shook the watch only a little bit and it started moving again. The watch has been keeping correct time since then.
Surprisingly, the same incident happened to another wind up watch too!
To me it seems like they have emotions. When we love our possessions we treat them pretty nicely and they know our love and happily work for us. But once these things detect that our love toward them become smaller than their expectations, they get cross and do not work for us obligingly.
Above mentioned is one of the two hypotheses I have. The other one is that we automatically give our energy to the things when we love them.
In Japanese there is an expression “Ki ni i lu”. The meaning of it is close to “like”. But if I translate that expression word by word, it will be “Getting into the energy (field)”. Isn’t it interesting? When we like something, we express the thing gets into our energy. This expression is quite common but I have never thought why we bother saying so instead of “like”. I assume our ancestors instinctively knew that our love was not just a philosophical idea but energy and when we loved something, we put them into our energy field and thus provided them with our energy.