Karma – Everything has meaning. You just need to connect the right dots.

My girlfriend (now wife) and I were dating for a couple of months and my mother decided to drag out the shoebox of family photos to show her.

As we rummaged through them, my girlfriend holds one up and says, “Why do you have a photo of me?”

It was a photo of me, around age 6–7, at a carnival, posing in front of a F4 Phantom fighter plane. Standing next to me, looking off to the side, was a little girl, who was my girlfriend.

It’s not a huge stretch that we’d both be at that carnival, as we lived a couple miles away from each other — but we never went to school together and did not share any friends. And yet, my father captures her in this snapshot of me, some ten years before we met, and she happens to pull it out of this pile of photos.

When I was in high school, I wanted to go out with Linda C, and her high school best friend was Tina G. Didn’t happen. After grad school I met my wife, and her college best friend was Tina G! => I was fated to meet Tina G as my partner’s best friend.

Yes

There is a pattern I’ve noticed in my family. My parents had two girls then a boy. My only sister had a girl then a boy. My only brother had a girl then a boy. My maternal grandparents had two girls then a boy. My paternal grandparents had five girls then a boy.

Actually, one in particular stands out. Exactly 2 days ago someone in the Social thread asked almost this very same question. woo-woo-woo-woo

https://www.fluther.com/229677/do-you-frequently-have-moments-of-synchronicity/

Went to a small jazz concert, and in the back row sat an older man, around 80, with a hand crafted cane. A couple of hours later, around midnight, I was walking back to my car and I saw two children playing in the parking lot with a cane that looked exactly like the old man’s. The kids gave me creepy vibes, the kind of creepy children you see in horror movies, such as The Shining or Deliverance.

But if I had to guess what happened, is that the kids were probably his grandchildren waiting to leave with their grandpa.

It’s all simple coincidence.

Sure got one. Or two. Was having Chinese food for dinner with a couple and they asked me what plans I have in the future. Told them I wanted to see the pyramids in Egypt. Later I opened my fortune cookie and it said, “Someday you are going to go to Egypt.” Haven’t been there yet but what a coincidence!

Three decades ago, a girlfriend I loved deeply broke up with me outside on the street, in front of her office building. She left me standing alone looking up at the night sky, about to shed a few tears when Mother Nature beat me to it, perhaps in symphaty. One single drop of rain landed at the corner of my left eye and made its way down my cheek. A while later rain fell.

Chills @mazingerz88. So sorry for that loss.

@Dutchess_III We reconnected recently and she wants me to visit her in Toronto. Toronto? Nope. Lol