Mere coincidence or pure luck helped me avoid walking right into the height of my very serious, everyone knew the drama and it was so bad I didn’t talk to anyone for years after graduation, Highschool boyfriends rehearsal dinner party with everyone there. This was in another country at a very obscure location. I cannot imagine that there would have been any way to avoid it looking like I crashed. It still makes my stomach turn thinking what could have happened.

I matched with someone on a dating app in NYC. Then I went to Paris on vacation and was at the same bar as him. Still didn’t say anything but made eye contact. The next day, he came up on another dating app and we matched again! Finally decided to go on a date. It didn’t end up going anywhere but felt like we had to give it shot!

Right after I graduated from high school, we moved to a large city several states away. A hs friend had a cousin who lived in that city, and we joked about running into her.

A couple of weeks after we moved, a new friend invited me and my sister to a party. A young woman walked in, and my sister and I immediately said to each other, “That’s Rachel’s cousin.” (whom we had never met or seen a photo of) We just knew. And she was, in fact, our friend’s cousin.

30 years ago, I was attending college in a different state than the one in which I live. By the end of freshman year, I had a crush on the fellow student I was going to marry, but we weren’t dating yet. I only knew a few details about his life.
That summer, I was reading the alumnae notes for my high school, and realized that a woman who had graduated in the 1920s had to be his grandmother (living with his family in a third state — I had no idea that he had a connection to my state). The brief details in the alumni note matched what I knew about his family.
This gave me the excuse I needed to write to him. I clipped out the alumnae note and mailed it to him, asking, “Is this your grandmother?” It was, and he and I have been married for 25 years now.

I met my husband while working in the same building in another city that neither of us was from. On our first date we realized our parents both retired to the same very small town in Fl and lived very close to each other.

Anonymous wrote:I went through a bad break up involving my BF cheating on me with another woman.

I moved away. Then a year later, I moved back. While apartment hunting, I found a studio on Craig's list available for sublet. I contacted them using the randomized contact email Craig's list provided.

It was the woman my ex had cheated with. She was moving out of her place to move in with him.

Ugh! Gut punch!

On a flight to a middle eastern country, I sat next to an Australian lady. After chatting we realized we had a mutual friend and had heard about each other.

I had a summer camp counselor in Bemidji, Minnesota. I ran into her in a bathroom in Berlin, Germany.

We met a woman in Vienna, Austria. As we were talking we discovered we were both invited to a family wedding over the summer in the US. We would end up being related by marriage that summer. (We were on different sides of the families getting married).

OP (and others)—You need to listen to this episode of The American Life. It’s all about coincidences, and it’s amazing. Best episode ever!

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/489/no-coincidence-no-story

Anonymous wrote:Unless you are sleepwalking through life, you should be experiencing/noticing “coincidences” that are too improbable to chalk up to being mere coincidences.

https://artsofthought.com/2020/05/30/carl-jung-synchronicity/

Sometimes called observer bias.

I went through a bad break up involving my BF cheating on me with another woman.

I moved away. Then a year later, I moved back. While apartment hunting, I found a studio on Craig's list available for sublet. I contacted them using the randomized contact email Craig's list provided.

It was the woman my ex had cheated with. She was moving out of her place to move in with him.

Unless you are sleepwalking through life, you should be experiencing/noticing “coincidences” that are too improbable to chalk up to being mere coincidences.

https://artsofthought.com/2020/05/30/carl-jung-synchronicity/

I had my first baby the day after a vv famous celebrity had their baby. Then when I was pg with the second so was this person and everyone joked it would happen again and it did.

I lived next door to a relative for 3 yrs. I had no idea who the guy in the apt next door was but my grandmother and her sister got talking at a wedding and each knew the address (grandmother knew mine & her sister knew her BIL's).

I have two. One- my day was born in another country (not Ireland). His sister married an Irishman who had a brother. My aunt and uncle were visiting us and realized we lived down the street from his Irish brother.

The second one was that I had a fish in college named after a famous author. It died and the next day the author died.