Has your life ever been changed by an apparently random occurrence?

Answer 1

I met my fiancee on a singles cruise. We met, talked for two minutes and I gave him my email address. I never saw him again the rest of the cruise. No one else talked to me, it was raining, the food was so bad, the drinks were expensive. At the time, I thought the cruise was the worst time in my life.

He emailed me a few days later. He has changed my whole life. I am not a struggling single mother anymore. I have found true genuine love!

All because I called in and won tickets to a Singles Harbor Cruise for a radio station in San Diego on February 13, 2003.

Answer 2

All the time. We drift through life blissfully unaware of the profound changes in direction that result from seemingly small (if not random) incidence. Consider...

Freshman year in college. I stop for a latte on the way to PoliSci. I drop my change, bend over to pick it up and rrrrrip. I'm going to need to hustle back to my dorm to change. By the time I get to class I'm six minutes late. There is one empty seat. I take it and end up next to the woman who will be my first wife.

If I choose to skip the coffee that morning, get a better night's sleep, leave for class five minutes earlier, choose a different pair of pants, blow off class or maybe ask myself if a quarter is really worth bending over for to begin with, I probably have two less mouths to feed today.

I'm convinced that random occurrence drives a greater percentage of our lives than those things over which we have the illusion of control.

Answer 3

Yes, a random act of kindness. There is so much hurt and bad things out in the world that I just sort of accepted that as the status quo, but when someone was kind to me for no reason it started me thinking. If people did nice things ever so often for others, maybe this world could be a better place.

Answer 4

First of all you presume there is such a thing as a "random" occurrence or coincidence. I am of the school that everything is ordained by a higher power. I believe this higher power can put a situation in our life to put us on a specific path to accomplish his eternal will. If God be true, he is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent as well as sovereign; if this is the case his immortal decrees can not be thwarted by anything mortal or temporal.

Answer 5

Every occurance in your life is random, and they all change you even if the change is too small to notice.

Answer 6

unless you believe in preordained occurances, all occurances are random. if your life was "changed" by an occurance that was preordained, then it wasn't really changed, it just took the next expected corner. confused?

Answer 7

YES.

The unexpected death of loved ones changed my life.

Answer 8

yes.

Answer 9

yes.regretfully