I recently lost my mother to the pandemic, and it has been tough to cope with the loss. This morning, the strangest thing happened.
I was standing in the kitchen, having just made my morning coffee. The house was silent, the family asleep. My laptop was in the other room, and my phone was in my pocket. Suddenly, I started hearing music playing quietly like a ringtone, and I think “what the heck?”
So, I started looking for the music to find the source before it wakes up the baby. It seems like it’s coming from my laptop. But my laptop is closed, and the headphones are plugged into the side like they always are.
I pick up my laptop, and yep, definitely coming from there. So, I open the laptop expecting to find it open to a window playing the song. But no, I open it and find that I have to get through the Windows lock screen and then find the window and tab somehow playing this song.
So, as I do that the whole time I’m thinking, what the actual heck, and what song even is this? When I get to the tab, it’s playing “Thank You” by Alanis Morrisette, which definitely feels like a message. But that sounds freaky, and so I tell myself that it could be some weird combination of failed technology and coincidence, right?