coincidences

[chirpychirpy]

I've experienced some truly amazing coincidences over the years and I romantically wonder if they mean or signify anything. Do you think there are messages or whatever to be read into coincidences or are they just...well...coincidences?

[rowanwitch]

Coincidences....we can read all sorts into what we percieve as signs...just think would someone else view them this way...

[cazzz1975]

I had a funny coincidence, I went shopping on the way back from my parents I was about 9 miles away from home, the checkout bloke asked my postcode (for their market research) he flipped out then said oh I know that area, he told me he used to live at number 76 on the same road as me, which was the actual house I was living in at the time!

not sure of the significance but it was very strange

[weecalf]

I was thinking the same thing .Could that be a coincidence .Was going to wear one of two hats today green or black .Theres a horse running to day called The green hat in 2.10 at Newcastle

[milly143]

They were talking on the radio this morning about sneezes and what happens when you feel like you are about to sneeze but it just disappears. The whole time they were talking about that, I had the exact same problem. Although that's more likely to be due to the stinking cold I have.

[Huderon]

lol ... Coincidences are just that. It would be really amazing if there were no coincidences

[Rodge2]

My auntie was married to someone with a drink problem. Don't get me wrong, he was a great guy, but when he was 'on a bender'....not nice at all. Over the years of my childhood this affliction caused a lot of problems within my family - his speciality was wrecking family weddings. I once recall him crawling up the stairs of the coach home from the big do! - haha. Please don't think me unsympathetic, because I actually liked him a lot, and wish things could have been better for him.

Anyway, my mother, all through my childhood when there was this kind of trouble, used to always say how she wished my auntie had married 'Johnny Jones' (not his real name!), a boyfriend she had dated before my uncle. My mother evidently thought a lot of this man.

Anyway, time passed, and when I was in my twenties, my auntie died unexpectedly. The next day in the local paper there was my auntie's death notice, and right under it, Johnny Jones's death notice. They had died on the same day. My mother was incredulous saying so if they'd got married like I wanted, they'd have died on the same day? Weird or what.

[Cockney_si]

I am a strong believer in fate and destiny, sometimes to the point that it freaks me out. Sometimes the universe teases me with signs and sometimes when I think it's all just coincidence something happens and I think it's not.

I had a theory about trying too hard to make things happen and fate and destiny go into your life and re-arrange everything so that it doesn't work out.

There is a film out soon called Adjustment Bureau that deals with just that idea, spooky....

[sandyRoe]

Jung believed in synchronicity, that coincidences are meaningful. I don't know if I do, though.

[bibblebub]

The Green Hat came 2nd in that race - and weecalf had a choice of 2 hats!!! Spooky.

[karenmac60]

My sister and I both married men who are a good bit older than us - they both have the same first name, their birthdays are 3 days apart, their fathers were both bakers and their mothers were both twins.