Do you ever wonder….?

Something happened this week and it made me think…. Do you ever wonder?

Here’s what happened.

A letter came back to me in a plastic wrap that the post office had put on it.  In it was an envelope I had mailed out all torn up.  I couldn’t read the address to whom it had been sent but could see stickers, “undeliverable return to sender”, “forward to (because now I wasn’t living on Lenor)” and “postage of $2.15 due to mail it out. 

I opened up the plastic wrap and pulled out the envelope.  Inside the envelope was a magnet that said, “Chicago”.  I thought, “what the heck is this? I never sent a magnet out!”  I carefully peeled back the yellow stickers to see whom the letter was addressed to.  I started laughing!

Back in March when all the sheltering in place started and a community of women came together to sew masks, I had a few people who needed elastic and I had some.  In this envelope that was addressed to another sewer up in San Francisco I had carefully sealed up 10 yards of elastic. 

Two months later this package made it’s way back to me but not with the contents I had mailed out… rather with a Chicago magnet that was not purchased by me.

I stood there and thought…

I wonder where the elastic went?  Did the elastic get caught up in machinery at the post office?  I wonder who mailed the magnet?  Will someone be disappointed they didn’t receive their gift?   

This made me think of other similar things.  Like…. A time that my luggage didn’t show up in San Jose when I did.  It arrived several days later and the tags on it looked as though it had been on a trip without me.  It had gone to several other states.  I remember thinking “I would have liked to be on that trip!”

Do you every wonder about stuff like that?  “How did this bottle from Timbucktoo end up on the beach?”  “Where did the balloon I lost drift off to?”  “Would my life look this way if I’d chosen a different response to a situation?” 

From simple and mundane to philosophical inquiries, what do you wonder about?