Many people tend to think of a coincidence as something that happens by chance, but by definition, a coincidence is simply two or more events that happen at the same time. In fact coincidences are in the end defined by us. A coincidence is nothing if it is not observed. I will come back to this later.

What about random chance, we often think of events happening to us in a random way. The weather is a good example. At the subatomic level the world seems to be governed by random chance in quantum physics. Albert Einstein famously said about quantum physics, 'god doesn't play dice with the universe'. Yet you can affect a particle millions of miles away instantaneously just by determining the spin of a particle that used to be twinned to it. On the other hand we have chaos theory where a completely deterministic mathematical equation can produce results which cannot be anticipated without doing the calculation yet when we repeat the calculation many times patterns arise from the apparent randomness.

Coming back to coincidences, they can often be very personal in nature what may be seen as a coincidence to me may not be observed as a coincidence by someone else. Just suppose that the coincidences that happen in your life are there to tell you something. If your life is not in balance, bad things can happen. If your life is more in balance events happen to confirm that state. Events can also happen that help you understand what others feel. So what can you do in your life? Be open to the experiences in your life and always try to learn from them, try to see what they are telling you? Think positively about things so that good things are more likely to happen to you.

One final thought about coincidences and fate. We make our own choices about how react to events yet often when we look back on a sequence of events we can see there was a reason for everything that happened. It's as if they were predestined.

Love and peace, Simon