Articles
My Experience
A Personal Journey 
By
Kathy Cooper
Our Destiny Links are two people who come into our lives to teach us something quite important, perhaps even profound. It is not always an easy lesson and the person teaching it may not be a friend. They may be just the opposite. Interestingly they will more than likely have had some similar experiences to us, but the way they see and the way you see it is another thing altogether. This is part and parcel of their reason for being in our lives. It is as if we are comparing life experiences and seeing how it has affected us in different ways and then to learn why we saw it that way. Often there is a sense of responsibility felt towards the other as if you have to take care of them for some reason or be aware of their welfare.
One of my sisters is one of my Destiny Links.
Her name is Christine and she is two years younger than me. I will try to illustrate how it has affected us by the personal experiences we had in our youth.
Firstly, we are both quite psychic and had many and varied experiences around the time she was 14 and I was 16. It actually scared us and we believed that we “willed it away” after six months of ongoing psychic activity that was too much for our young minds.
Later we both worked menial jobs in a factory. One Saturday morning we got up and read the vacant positions in the SMH and marked out which ones we would apply for and we each chose one in particular that we would apply for first thing on Monday morning. We lived in Penrith at the time and took the Monday off work to go into Sydney to apply for these jobs. We both got the first job we applied for, both were office jobs, a departure from the factory floor. We were set on improving our lives.
That evening our father hit the roof when he heard we had taken a day off work, and despite the fact that we had both secured better jobs, he threw us both out. Christine was just 16 and I was 18. We stayed at a friends house that night and then found a small flat in the city to live for a short time. We both married later that year and within just three weeks of each other. My husband was an obsessive, jealous , violent man. For both my sister and I, our first child was a Sagittarian born within 4 days of each other.
We both left our husbands within 6 months of each other and both divorced at the age of just 23. She went on to remarry three more times and is contemplating her 5th marriage as I write this. I have never remarried. We each had four pregnancies. She had four daughters and I have two grown sons, lost one child (a son) at two days of age due to being born premature and I had one miscarriage. Our eldest child (the Sagittarian) moved interstate within a few months of each other in their teenage years and arrived back home within a few months of each other. Later these two Sagittarians have also lived interstate at times for some years and only my son has since returned home, her daughter has visited but not returned.
I have gone out to work most of my life, whereas Christine had chosen to be at home raising her four children. We actually have a lot of similar views on life, and also some quite different views on some issues in particular. We view our Destiny Link connection as an important part of our lives. There have been times when we haven’t always seen eye to eye but being aware that it is important to maintain a friendly relationship has managed to keep us close throughout our lives.
To me I am still wondering! The bond between us is incredibly strong. The experiences we have had did not necessarily arise out of living in the same family. We could have just been neighbours or school pals. I have always suspected that the lesson mainly involves the rearing of our children. Each of us had to raise young children on our own when we were so young ourselves. The fact that she has remarried 3 more times shows her courage and the fact that I did not, shows my lack of it. She chose not to go it alone. I chose to do it on my own. Each of us paid a price for our decisions. I actually found it very difficult on my own and she still found difficulty within her marriages.
We have discussed this connection on numerous occasions. Just today I rang her regarding this article and she said she felt that it was interesting to observe what each chose to do and it was as if she had two lives and got to see how each of our decisions turned out. We had chosen different paths and now we can look back on it and reflect what might have been if we had made different choices in our early years. I thought that was quite interesting and I can now see what she means. I ponder what we will make of all this at the end of our lives.
By Kathy Cooper -
Copyright, 1999.
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