I tend to believe in strange things. One of the things I believe in is that there isn’t so much of a thing called coincidence. Ever since I read the book Celestine Prophecy years ago, I bought the idea that whatever you chance upon, or rather whatever you think you chanced upon, is in fact a planned event by the universal powers beyond. So whenever a coincidence occurs to me, I tend to reason out why it happened. But I’ve never been able to find a good rationale.
In the last 8 months or so, I’ve had many chanced encounters with lots of people who have at one point or another graced my life. Be them former workmates, school friends, fellow sportsmen/women or university friends, I’ve bumped into them after years of losing contact. Just over the weekend, I bumped into 6 people. That to me was quite extraordinary because I’m the type who hardly ever bump into friends on the street. And the best thing I find about rediscovering these friends again is that we could almost pick things off where we left them.
Some of these “coincidences” that have happened to me are quite uncanny, too. Not only will I soon end up working in the same building with someone whom I used to work with, but we’re going to be based on the same floor! How odd, considering that we came from different industry backgrounds, so to speak, and I would never have thought of us being in the same company again.
And speaking of oddities, some 2 years back I traded in my old car at a shop in Subang Jaya. Months later, I saw that very car of mine parked in my office building in KL! The new owner of the car happens to work in the same building as me. Seriously, what are the odds of that?? But you know what? If I were to buy lottery tickets, I wouldn’t even get close to lucky. I can’t explain it.
I guess some “coincidences” are hard to explain and beyond my understanding. Perhaps I should just take things as they come and enjoy life’s little surprises. If something is meant to happen for a reason, so be it. Que Sera, Sera.
In the last 8 months or so, I’ve had many chanced encounters with lots of people who have at one point or another graced my life. Be them former workmates, school friends, fellow sportsmen/women or university friends, I’ve bumped into them after years of losing contact. Just over the weekend, I bumped into 6 people. That to me was quite extraordinary because I’m the type who hardly ever bump into friends on the street. And the best thing I find about rediscovering these friends again is that we could almost pick things off where we left them.
Some of these “coincidences” that have happened to me are quite uncanny, too. Not only will I soon end up working in the same building with someone whom I used to work with, but we’re going to be based on the same floor! How odd, considering that we came from different industry backgrounds, so to speak, and I would never have thought of us being in the same company again.
And speaking of oddities, some 2 years back I traded in my old car at a shop in Subang Jaya. Months later, I saw that very car of mine parked in my office building in KL! The new owner of the car happens to work in the same building as me. Seriously, what are the odds of that?? But you know what? If I were to buy lottery tickets, I wouldn’t even get close to lucky. I can’t explain it.
I guess some “coincidences” are hard to explain and beyond my understanding. Perhaps I should just take things as they come and enjoy life’s little surprises. If something is meant to happen for a reason, so be it. Que Sera, Sera.
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