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Anonymous wrote:In my teens through my early 20s I had this close friend. Long story short, when I was breaking up with my long-term boyfriend, my friend sided with the boyfriend (although we were friends first). Maybe because they were both guys, who knows. It was a touchy situation and we lost touch soon after with lots of hurt feelings.

In my late twenties, I was coming home late via Metro and ran into him out of nowhere - he just happened to board the same Metro car right where I was sitting. It was like no time had passed at all. We exchanged numbers and met up soon after. He met my boyfriend (who is now my husband), we caught up on our lives, reminisced about our old friend group and our crazy teenage years, and made peace about what caused us to lose the friendship. It was a great evening and we made plans to meet up again soon.

He died in a freak accident the following month. I am not religious but I think it was meant to be that we got to meet again before he left this earth.

Nice for you, but not so nice for your dead friend. Would have been better for him if you had not met up again and he got to live to old age.

How do you know it would have been better for him? Maybe his death prevented mass shooting? Or bombing? Or some other big disaster.

You mean the friend was a murderer? Or that he himself died in a noble cause?

Generally death is considered to be a bad (but inevitable) thing, and people go to great lengths to stay alive. Maybe this friend was different, though, and is better off dead -- and how nice that God provided this miracle for his friend to connect one more before he met his fate.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my teens through my early 20s I had this close friend. Long story short, when I was breaking up with my long-term boyfriend, my friend sided with the boyfriend (although we were friends first). Maybe because they were both guys, who knows. It was a touchy situation and we lost touch soon after with lots of hurt feelings.

In my late twenties, I was coming home late via Metro and ran into him out of nowhere - he just happened to board the same Metro car right where I was sitting. It was like no time had passed at all. We exchanged numbers and met up soon after. He met my boyfriend (who is now my husband), we caught up on our lives, reminisced about our old friend group and our crazy teenage years, and made peace about what caused us to lose the friendship. It was a great evening and we made plans to meet up again soon.

He died in a freak accident the following month. I am not religious but I think it was meant to be that we got to meet again before he left this earth.

Nice for you, but not so nice for your dead friend. Would have been better for him if you had not met up again and he got to live to old age.

How do you know it would have been better for him? Maybe his death prevented mass shooting? Or bombing? Or some other big disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:People are making coincidences Into miracles here. Miracles aren’t real, they are just science we haven’t figured out yet.

Do you mean YOU haven't' figured out? It looks like a lot of people did figured it out.

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Anonymous wrote:In my teens through my early 20s I had this close friend. Long story short, when I was breaking up with my long-term boyfriend, my friend sided with the boyfriend (although we were friends first). Maybe because they were both guys, who knows. It was a touchy situation and we lost touch soon after with lots of hurt feelings.

In my late twenties, I was coming home late via Metro and ran into him out of nowhere - he just happened to board the same Metro car right where I was sitting. It was like no time had passed at all. We exchanged numbers and met up soon after. He met my boyfriend (who is now my husband), we caught up on our lives, reminisced about our old friend group and our crazy teenage years, and made peace about what caused us to lose the friendship. It was a great evening and we made plans to meet up again soon.

He died in a freak accident the following month. I am not religious but I think it was meant to be that we got to meet again before he left this earth.

Nice for you, but not so nice for your dead friend. Would have been better for him if you had not met up again and he got to live to old age.

Anonymous wrote:People are making coincidences Into miracles here. Miracles aren’t real, they are just science we haven’t figured out yet.

Anonymous wrote:In my teens through my early 20s I had this close friend. Long story short, when I was breaking up with my long-term boyfriend, my friend sided with the boyfriend (although we were friends first). Maybe because they were both guys, who knows. It was a touchy situation and we lost touch soon after with lots of hurt feelings.

In my late twenties, I was coming home late via Metro and ran into him out of nowhere - he just happened to board the same Metro car right where I was sitting. It was like no time had passed at all. We exchanged numbers and met up soon after. He met my boyfriend (who is now my husband), we caught up on our lives, reminisced about our old friend group and our crazy teenage years, and made peace about what caused us to lose the friendship. It was a great evening and we made plans to meet up again soon.

He died in a freak accident the following month. I am not religious but I think it was meant to be that we got to meet again before he left this earth.

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Anonymous wrote:People are making coincidences Into miracles here. Miracles aren’t real, they are just science we haven’t figured out yet.

But on the flip side.. what IF there are NO coincidences?.. What if it is all a little push from something Bigger?

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter (3 ish at the time) came like 2 seconds from falling out of a second story window once. Somehow the screen fell out and she was sitting on a table leaning out the window to look at the screen on the ground.

I still feel sick every time I think about it. It’s a miracle she didn’t fall out.

OMG! I can imagine your trauma. So happy for you.

I often think of Bob Dylan's son and this feels so unreal...

Eric Clapton?

Ye ye ye ye ye.. sorry.. my mistake. I am not sure Bob Dylan even has a son. The answer is blowing in the wind...

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Anonymous wrote:Guys, coincidences happen. Just not all the time. If they happened all the time they would be coincidences. Don't apply reasons without reason.

A what now?

Anonymous wrote:Guys, coincidences happen. Just not all the time. If they happened all the time they would be coincidences. Don't apply reasons without reason.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter (3 ish at the time) came like 2 seconds from falling out of a second story window once. Somehow the screen fell out and she was sitting on a table leaning out the window to look at the screen on the ground.

I still feel sick every time I think about it. It’s a miracle she didn’t fall out.

OMG! I can imagine your trauma. So happy for you.

I often think of Bob Dylan's son and this feels so unreal...

Eric Clapton?

Anonymous wrote:Not a miracle but more of an "intervention".

Was driving behind this person going about 20-25 in a 30. No real reason for them to be driving so slow (no streets or businesses to slow down to find) but it was dark with no street lights so I just figured they were nervous. Whatever. Just followed behind at an appropriate distance and listened to my podcast. After about 5 minutes they pulled over to the side and I thought that it was nice they were letting me go ahead.

I drove for about a minute and then all the hairs on my body stood up and I got this chilling feeling while "hearing" this voice say " turn around. Go back". I drove for about another minute and I felt physically ill. I was almost shaking. Turned around and drove back. Person was still pulled over. While thinking "you're an absolute moron" I approached the car and found the driver slumped over. He had gone into cardiac arrest and likely wasn't feeling well which was why he was driving so slow. I called 911 while pulling him out of the car. At the time, I was an ED nurse. Performed CPR and brought him back by the time the ambulance arrived. I met him later on and he made a full recovery. It took the ambulance 15 min to get there. He likely would not have survived if I didn't get that urgent need to turn around.