Funny Story...

So I was on a hike earlier today and passed by a very small Buddhist temple. I dropped in a coin (100円, aka about a dollar) for offering, rang the bell, bowed twice, clasped my hands twice, then bowed again, and finally made a wish (per the usual custom). I wished for “Enlightenment”. After a brief pause reflecting on why I chose that as what to wish for, I then turned and walked away.

 

I hadn’t even made it 10ft yet and I noticed there was a break in the clouds and the sun peaked through showering me directly in it’s warm rays. I thought to myself, “that wasn’t exactly what I meant, but I’ll take it anyway!” I then started to walk up the path towards the lookout point. After about 30ish or so paces deep in thought, I for some reason turned to look back over my shoulder.

 

First thing I saw was that the clouds were breaking up much faster now. I stopped and turned fully around only to then be greeted by a bright stunningly beautiful rainbow just starting to emerge (later becoming a partial double rainbow as you see here before dissipating and then returning back a while later as a single rainbow again, only much larger and having a full arc filling the horizon).

 

As I stood in awe, the rainbow started moving (probably an illusion of the clouds I think, but I can’t be sure, it might have really been moving) and it looked like the tail end of the rainbow was moving right straight towards me. It of course never “caught up” to me (darn! could’ve proven if there really was a pot of gold or not), but it definitely was quite a sight to see none the less, one I will likely never forget!

 

So was this all just coincidence or is there something out there that heard my wish and is sending me a sign of sorts in response?

Done