Nothing is Random

24 July 2009

Did you ever stop to wonder what makes life so seemingly chaotic sometimes? Perhaps you did, but did you also realise that perhaps the events that occur in your life aren’t so random. What might seem random to you; might be an ordered pattern of choices that have happened over a period of time, in other people’s realities, that suddenly coincide with your reality.

Ok, bear with me on this one. So what I’m saying is that nothing is random.

Imagine walking down the street one day, and you bump into that guy who you end up dating and even marrying. That chance encounter lead to a whole new life, a whole generation of things to come and happen, but was it random? You may well think so, but consider this hypothetical situation;

That day, you had been thinking all along about making some changes, and as a result, when you picked up that call from your best friend, you mentioned these new ideas. Your friend then starts chatting about it and how you should read a certain personal development book, because her friend had recommended it. As a result of tapping into this common interest topic, you talk for 10 minutes long than you normally would, causing you to miss your usual train home. So you end up taking the next train home. On the way you stop by the book store to buy that recommended book, and seeing as the bookstore is right next to the supermarket, you also decide to pick up some bread for the next day. With you bread in hand and the new book, you rush home excited to get reading, and that’s when you bump into that guy, literally, bread and book get flung onto the ground.

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