Coincidence or Random Event?
"There are only two positions you can take," Albert Einstein once said. "Either you believe nothing in life is a miracle, or you believe that everything in life is a miracle."
I have taken a long hard look at my life, specifically the people that have been in it. Have you ever done that? Wonder why certain people come into your life just at the right time and then fade away slowly? These are good people, and you of course promised to keep in touch but never did. However, if you were to take a look at your past, like what I have been doing, these faded people play an important role in shaping who you are today.
Why then have we lost touch? Friends forever and all that schmazz. Nothing but a distant memory now. But yet they played a pivotal role in your life. Then you have the forever life-changing friends who just scorch themselves to your heart and there is no way they can fade away because you will always need them.
Just a couple of weeks ago, I got a blast from the past. Interestingly enough, this "blast" didn’t figure in my past while I was living it. Fast forward 25 years and you have two 30 something women wondering how freaky it is to meet someone all these years later who is beyond exaggeration, literally your character twin?
It goes beyond knowing the same people or attending the same preschool. We had similar childhoods, we battled similar demons and we emerged from our own personal war almost brand new. We live our lives now with a similar zeal and our passions are eerily similar.
I have yet to see her face nor even touch her. But she has seen my soul and I recognise hers.
Even now, our lives have found a parallel that goes beyond coincidence. How do you explain the bond we felt even before we got to know each other? It was practically instantaneous. The only other time I experienced this immediate bonding was with my other half.
The only explaination I can find is that the people who walk into our lives are driven by some greater force than we can imagine. As how we are driven to certain people or places, we don’t question it, it just happens. There has to be a purpose to be fulfilled that is yet unseen. All I know is that when I look at when these special people appeared in my life, it happened when I was at a crossroad or had given up hope in some area of my life.
The right person than came along to walk with me. Until I was able to walk alone. Yet, some have been chosen to walk all the way with me.
To me these are beyond coincidences, it is a random act within a great design that we may never fully understand. Why I say it is random, is that so many things could have been done differently and I would not have had the opportunity to cross paths with these people. Yet it happened even within the narrowest window of possibility.
My precious other half, I met him during the first week of my new job that I actually turned down twice but reconsidered. And I left the company within a month due to unforeseen circumstances. Imagine if my boss did not pursue me with such fervour and I didn’t get the job? The chances of meeting my sweetheart would have been less than slim considering that he is based in a another country! Yet he appeared just in the nick of time to save me from entering a relationship I didn’t care for just because I was tired of being single and wanted to settle down.
And as for her, my character twin, if my neighbour didn’t do what he did, I would have had nothing to vent about in the forum and would have remained anonymous. And we probably would never have chatted with each other.
So many ifs, yet, SOMETHING took us beyond all those Ifs and we found each other. Its funny how we recognised how special our getting to know each other was. Its almost like we instinctively knew that something special worked its magic to bring us together.
Yes, I do believe my LIFE is nothing short of a miracle. How can I not? There is too much beauty and grace in it from the most wonderful people for it NOT to be a miracle!
