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“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.” ~Anatole France
I went to bed thinking about coincidence. I woke up thinking about coincidence. Random, insignificant coincidence? Important, life-changing sign? I just don’t know sometimes.
To be honest, I find this business of coincidence a bit confusing. A quick search reveals a wide range of opinions on the subject. To some a coincidence is a fluke without any psychic significance and can easily be explained using the law of probability. To these logical folks, the only true coincidence is the complete lack of coincidence. To the more mystically bent, a coincidence is divine synchronicity, the purposeful occurrence of two seemingly unrelated events that give guidance and direction to the observer.


