Do you believe in fate or is it just coincidence?

Question

Do you believe in coincidence or does everything happen for a reason? what was the weirdest thing that ever happened to you that couldn't possibly be a coincidence?

Answer 1

In hindsight, coincidence can look a lot like fate. It's in our nature to constantly be correlating things...looking for patterns or trends. Two separate events become coincidence when we give them relevance.

That said, when I was in high school I had very long hair. One day while leaving a class room, my hair got all tangled up in the jacket of a guy entering the class room. With some embarrassment, we got untangled and went on our separate ways.

Several months later, I was at a birthday party for a good friend. He had invited some of his neighbors as well as a bunch of us from the Field Science Club. While there I met a guy named Bernd. We were immediately attracted to one another and started seeing each other a lot. One day he told me about another girl at our high school who had really long hair like mine. Then he started telling me about how his jacket got caught in her hair one day. My jaw just dropped.

So, were we fated to meet and get married? We've been married for 32 years and have known each other for 37. Or was it just a coincidence? Sometimes I feel like it was fate.

Answer 2

I am believing in things that I would have laughed at you for even suggesting 2 months ago. I do believe in fate There is a reason for everything; sometimes fate brings people together because they were Meant to be. There are so many bends in the road that is my life now and every one of them brings new surprises daily.
I still firmly believe in coincidence but fate plays a role in a lot of it as well

Answer 3

Things happen for a reason, though often we don't know that reason. I almost got creamed by a semi when I fell asleep at the wheel. There was no noise to wake me ,but I woke up the split second before I was to be crushed and somehow managed to ease back onto the road. Not coincidence.. fate..

Answer 4

Fate and the inevitable. Quoted by a character in a Japanese Manga: "All encounters are inevitable. Thereis no such thing as coincidences, only the inevitable" Anyway, we Muslims have always believe that fate played the part. Not one inch of this world is out of God's plan. Doesn't matter if it's good or bad.

Answer 5

Fate. In May '02 I had right arm pain, and went to a doctor. My EKG was fine, but he scheduled a treadmill test--which some doctors don't do. I failed it, failed the follow up cardiac catheterization, then had emergency 7-way heart bypass surgery. The doctors couldn't believe I'd walked in on my own power ["You should be dead," my doctor put it]. Then I recalled that in January, a mysterious co-worker--a simple person of few words--had given me a handwritten card on her last day of work: "Warning: Angels are closer than they appear!" [While I was recuperating, a radio personality died from the same symptoms after going to a doctor who'd dismissed it as 'tennis elbow.']

Answer 6

I don't percieve to believe in fate as your entire life is pre-ordained that you have a set path and that all your events of your life from your birth to your death and everything inbetween is planned out like a story. I do believe however that wether conciously or unconsciously we have ultimate control of our actions and decisions. But with said action or decision a door way or path could open and another cloes. I look at life like a highway that has multiple side routes and which one you takes is ultimately up to you but in taking that one route you may close off other routes without even realizing it or never knowing they existed. Or you may know it after you look back on events in your life and be like well I could have done things differently even with hindsight I don't think everything is pre-ordained.

Answer 7

I believe in fate; everything happens for a reason.

Answer 8

I believe that people are put in our lives for a reason, but that we have to make that reason a reality. Fate is really just an opportunity we have to take initiative in to make it come true.

Answer 9

even seeds have lives in order ,,to become a tree ,,and it is not a coincidence,,
how come humans ,, the most important & dominant creatures have lives with coincidences ,,
Yes I believe in fate.

Answer 10

I would love to believe in fate. I wish there was such a entity as fate. I think it is all a crazy roll of the dice and I wish I was a Vegas superstar.