Foreshadowing

A strange incident occurred today and it made me think about the foreshadowing.

Yesterday I was drafting a post for my own blog. I had written a fictitious story which would sound relatable and entertaining. I had written that my house help comes to work. While she is working it starts raining heavily. She asks me if I can lend her my umbrella. I tell her that I have only one umbrella in my house. If I had given it to her I would have no umbrella with me. If I had to go out I would have no umbrella and I would get wet. Somehow the house help manages to convince me to give her my umbrella. She takes my umbrella with her and in the evening I want to go out to buy groceries. But I cannot go out because I have no umbrella. This was my story.

Now today what happened? It was 10:30 in the morning. I had already started working. My house help came around 11 o'clock. She was working during which it started raining. I did not pay much attention because this is the rainy season and it has been raining since last few days. My house help completed her work and came to me. Since I was working she was little hesitant to speak. But she was constantly adjusting her bangles and that told me that she wanted to speak. I looked in her direction. She smiled at me and asked me if she can borrow one of the umbrellas in my house. I was speechless because it was happening exactly how I had written in my story. I was processing what was happening around me. As I had not responded she thought that I may be doubtful that she would not return the umbrella. She upfrontly spoke that she would take the umbrella today and tomorrow she would bring it back. When she spoke I realised that I had not responded or even said yes or no. I was completely lost in my thoughts. I got up from my desk and gave her a spare umbrella that I had. She took it from me and thanked me. While leaving she reassured that she would bring back the umbrella tomorrow.

As she left I was again lost in my thoughts. I thought what if it was a foreshadowing. What if I had already seeing the future and I had written about it? Do I have a sixth sense? Do I have the ability to see the future? Do I have the ability to predict the future? What if I do have this ability which I have ignored for several years? There had been several instances when I was able to predict what was going to happen in the near future. What if what happened yesterday was another attempt at seeing the future?

How much ever I wanted to indulge on that topic I decided not to think about it. There is a very specific reason for it. Yesterday I wrote two stories: one story about my house help asking for an umbrella and another story is horror story. In any case I do not want the second story to be true.