Maybe It Wasn’t a Coincidence
Today’s prompt asks:
What’s the weirdest coincidence you’ve ever experienced?
Recently, I purchased a car.
Now, if you had asked me what kind of car I was going to buy, I would have told you:
A convertible.
I had it all figured out in my head.
I searched.
Compared.
Checked VIN numbers.
Looked at mileage.
Read CARFAX reports.
I was determined.
And somehow…
I ended up sitting in something completely different.
A Porsche.
That alone wasn’t the strange part.
The strange part was what happened when I got inside.
My phone connected to the car.
Automatically.
I hadn’t paired it.
I hadn’t gone through the Bluetooth settings.
I hadn’t done anything.
It just connected.
Like my phone had already decided:
“Yep. This is the one.”
Now, I’m sure there is some perfectly logical technological explanation.
There usually is.
But every now and then, life gives us one of those little moments that makes us stop and think:
Okay… that was interesting.
Because I went looking for one thing and came home with something completely different.
And maybe that is the part I keep thinking about.
I was so focused on finding my convertible that I almost missed the car I wasn’t looking for.
And isn’t life like that sometimes?
We make plans.
We make lists.
We decide exactly what something is supposed to look like.
Then life—or sometimes God—has a way of saying:
“That’s cute. But let me show you what I had in mind.”
Sometimes the opportunity isn’t packaged the way we imagined.
Sometimes the answer doesn’t look like the picture we carried in our head.
Sometimes what finds us is better suited for us than what we were determined to find.
So yes…
I bought the Porsche.
And I’m still laughing about the fact that my phone connected the moment I sat down.
Maybe it was technology.
Maybe it was coincidence.
Maybe it meant absolutely nothing at all.
But I like this thought better:
Sometimes the unexpected feels familiar because we were meant to recognize it before we understood it.
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