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Cleo, a book turned into a life
Submitted by: Sarah
Narrie, ONI am a post-college student living away from my parents.
Years ago I used The Secret for a while and it really worked for me, but my life became complex as I was moving out for the first time and really growing up. I was distracted and stopped using it.
For the past year I had been thinking about this cat. “My future cat.” I joked to everyone, but was half serious. I DID want this cat, but it wasn’t important. I knew I had more important things to be concerned about. I thought about her all the time and described her all the time: black, slim, female, green eyes, and a kitten, just like a Halloween cat.
Well it came to the end of that year and my boyfriend and I found a place and moved out of his mothers place. I asked him if we could get a kitten and he agreed it was a great idea. There was a book in a bookstore nearby called “Cleo” with a picture of the EXACT kitten I wanted on the front of it. I visited the store a lot and smiled every time I saw it. So I started my search, and for a month I looked but could not find the right one. I just ended up back at the bookstore looking at “my cat”. So I decided to stop looking and my best friend said to me, “Once you stop looking, you will find her.” The most inspiring words ever spoken.
A week later my boyfriend said to me, “Sarah, do you still want a kitten? My boss was golfing and found an abandoned kitten on the course.” I said, Yes, without knowing anything about the kitten, and she was delivered to our house the next day. An all black, green-eyed, slim, female kitten. I kid you not. This was only a month ago and I am still blown away. We named her Cleo, and she’s inspired me to look into The Secret once again, for it has helped me when I didn’t even realize I was harnessing it.