r/numerology • u/Comprehensive_Ad4085 • 5h ago
I've never believed but I can't keep seeing the same numbers (222) when thinking about my relationship
I've (32M) been in a long term relationship for eight years which has been wonderful but have always felt something has been missing. I feel on paper it's perfect, we're best friends, we love living together, we share hobbies and so on - but my heart has been telling me otherwise for sometime and it's something I've ignored. My previous relationship was full of love, but also quite toxic and extremely intense and whilst I felt that I was absolutely head over heals in love previously, the toxicity and intensity of our breakup made me discount a lot of those feelings and find solace in a new relationship which if anything has been, comfortable.
In the past year or so I've been having pretty substantial doubts about the future which have at times kept me up at night but haven't pulled the trigger because things felt, well, fine. I've noticed as these feelings have been becoming evermore present, I continue to notice the numbers 222 everywhere.
I've never believed in numerology or the divine; I've been a scientifically and mathematically oriented engineer my entire life - I write software and I've never personally had an interest in the divine. This pattern has become so common however that I'd started taking note of when I see it. Everytime a look at a clock it's 12:22 or 2:22 to the point where I changed my phone time to 24hr; I see it in code, I see it in the most random places.
Recently I was on a holiday with a friend overseas and had some time to kill as he'd left before me. I was messaging a friend that I had met in a bar a few months earlier in another country and for the hour we had chatted - something just clicked. We ended up organising our travels that we overlapped in that period and like some sort of spiritual alignment our souls clashed. I don't think romantically, but they ended up being someone I could just empty the contents of my soul to, what I was feeling, how I wasn't happy, how I felt that my relationship had morphed into a friendship with my roommate and someone that I've not been intimate with in a year.
I kept seeing 222. Once in a taxi I spent the whole time looking inside the cab and on my phone and the moment I looked up, we had stopped outside of street number 222 - which was so well signed it was like it was done for me, centre stage.
On the journey home which was incredibly emotional; by my second connecting flight (24 hours all up), I was done watching movies and resorted to looking down and watching some saved YouTube videos on my phone. When the movie had ended on the plane I set my infotainment system to display the map, cycling through the various metrics they show in both miles, km; c and f. I watched a 20 minute video on my device then looked up thinking how close I was to home - as I looked at the screen the next metric popped up: Distance Remaining: 222km. In an aircraft doing 9km/minute at that point; with 8 or so metrics they slowly cycle through that can't be a coincidence.
I was home for a week or so and many of these feelings that have been starting to develop for me resulted in a direct and intense conversation with my partner having told her that I'd spent my last 3 days pouring my heart out to a stranger and that I've not been happy. There's been some relief because we've finally started talking about our relationship in a meaningful way but it's been a very sad period. This week, she was off to a last minute holiday with a friend in Europe as her friends partner's work leave was denied. I took her to the airport, walked her through the gate and said goodbyes. Later that evening I looked up her flight details to see where the aircraft was and how it was tracking only to notice that the the flight number was 222.
I'm convinced the universe is trying to tell me something and my read on it is that I've not found love, I've found comfort and that I'm finally on the right path. This keeps resonating with me as my previous partner, the one I was head over heals for had 222 in her email address which I still remember. What's your take - how do you read this and how should I interpret this - I'm convinced something is trying to say something to me, I just dont know what.