Coincidences are too damn obvious to be rational.

For realists, coincidence is an event statiscally unlikely to happen and without any specific catalyzer. For dreamers, a coincidence has nothing to do with randomness, it is meant to happen. And for Mr Wikipedia it is scientifically "referring to when two rays of light strike a surface at the same point at the same time. In this usage of coincidence, there is no implication that the alignment of events is surprising, noteworthy or non-causal..."

And the more I read the more I realize that it's a recurrent subject in a lot of books. In a world without coincidences nothing interesting would ever happen so there would not be any outstanding subject to write about. Coincidences make us reflect.

Like waiting for a train, looking randomly at the small bookshelf at the kiosk 10 minutes before the train is supposed to leave and finding a lost book on the bottom corner with the best story taking place in your destination city and that will make you live and feel the place like no one else.

Beeing overwhelmed by a book and thinking about it to the point it changes the way you live and then meeting someone that have wanted to read it and have a passionate very first conversation with you about it. People say the first impression is often the right one.

Randomly listening to a song and liking it a lot from the first notes. Ending up the very next day with a stranger putting spontaneously headphones on you to make you listen to that same song, inevitably and naturally creating a special connection between the two.

Having a movie left unnoticed in a folder for ages, not knowing what it is about and then the day you decide almost unwillingly to watch it, it makes perfect sense and makes you reflect exactly on what you needed.

Dreaming about driving a car and hitting your head on the windscreen after braking really hard. Touching your forehead and seeing blood running down your fingers in your dream before being woken up by someone announcing the death of your best childhood friend in a car accident during the night.

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