Isn't it incredible how paths can cross so many times?
"It's a small world!" - such a careless phrase, used to express what seems like an amazing coincidence when you bump into someone you least expected to see....but it's incredible!!! The world is massive, and meeting someone you used to know in France, for instance, in one out of a dozen cafés, inside a shopping center in Ireland, 6 years after you last saw them...is incredible. I don't care what you say, the world ain't small, it's an incredible coincidence.
coincidence |kōˈinsədəns; -ˌdens|
noun
1 a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection : it's no coincidence that this new burst of innovation has occurred in the free nations | they met by coincidence.
2 correspondence in nature or in time of occurrence : the coincidence of interest between the mining companies and certain politicians.
3 Physics the presence of ionizing particles or other objects in two or more detectors simultaneously, or of two or more signals simultaneously in a circuit.
ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense [occupation of the same space] ): from medieval Latin coincidentia, from coincidere 'coincide, agree' (see coincide ). Sense 3 dates from the 1930s.
Do you believe in coincidence? Seems to me that there are way to many coincidences happening for them all to be coincidence - because surely a coincidence is no longer a coincidence if it regularly occurs? Can we not say the same for differnt coincidences, grouped under the heading of 'Coincidence of Coincidence'?
------> the number of times you'll meet people in our 'small world' who you should not, if you work out the so-called laws of probability and averages, is not possible. Likewise with weird coincidental events: start counting how many happen in a day and you'll find suddenly you're surrounded by them, if you open your eyes wide enough to see them properly for what they are....
[try it yourself, it's so much fun! xD]
Coincidence? I think not!The fact is it makes
no sense. It's all too strange to be true, unless it's a once-off against-the-odds coincidence. But if all these coincidences are coincidences then they're not so once-off, or against-the-odds --->because they happen so often. So they can't be coincidence...but they can't be ordinary, else there'd be nothing worth talking about here...
So in conclusion this is just another example to show you how our worlds are based on paradoxes that shouldn't work, but do. A paradox in itself, actually.