The email story...err the intuition story

It has been a few years since this and I write this because something similar has happened just a couple of days back. Back in those the project I worked on had monthly releases, not necessary every month but there was a gap of few months in between. So, one day as I was working on a project and was midway through it, I dont know what happened but I chanced upon a mail by some unintended clicks and that was about the release notes and that my lead had updated it. Now I did not see the dates on that email and assumed that it was just received. I kept the task of reading the updates for later and went on to finish what was immediately needed. But when I got to that task, I could not find that email and all my search went in vain. I wondered if I had deleted the email and asked my lead to re-send the same to me. He was so surprised by my email because he said though he updated the release notes that very day he did not actually send me an email. We were both surprised! Well, what had happened was that some old email with the same subject and intention had opened by chance. Well, a boon since my lead had forgotten to update me, I could have potentially missed the changes but for my luck I was saved the embarrasment.

And just two days back, I had decided to delete mails from an old project since my mailbox was having space issues. And out of nowhere, I received an email from someone involved in that project and for two whole minutes I kept checking if that was not an old email. Well, I take it as a sign not to delete  those as something from there might turn to be useful in the near future!

If your mind is open and uncluttered, I guess we receive these signals; it is just a matter of realizing!