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Originally Posted by GregorArturo

Come on, no one finds this interesting? 1,889,568 to 1, I call it synchronicity, not chance.

Actually I find it fascinating. I basically have no idea what you're talking about, but plainly you're onto something. It reminds me of my Strengths Finder group, where we all have used a particular life tool to focus on five of each other's specific strengths. In those top-five lists, I have three out of five in common with my wife, and four out of five with a woman in the group who is a few years younger. The odds against that are fairly high, and I find it interesting that both my wife and this other woman are people that I immediately felt totally at ease with. The connection with this other woman, by the way, is not romantic in the least, and yet there is a peculiar intimacy to it that we both feel. We've talked about it a little, it's as if we knew each other a long time ago, or something.

What this suggests to me, these to odd synchronicities of meeting people, is that there really aren't very many coincidences going on here. I surely do not understand all the connections or the subtle currents that draw us into and through each other's lives. But at intervals throughout my life I've met people that I knew, somehow, I was destined to cross paths with. And it seems to me, too, that those encounters are starting to come much, much more often.