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This shit keeps happening to me and it's wearing me out.

A few years ago I started online college courses through a state university. Very first class I run into someone I hadn't worked with in over ten years. We were both in the military back then, but she got out and was working as a contractor. Had zero relation to the state university (it is my home state), was just taking courses because they offer a specific program there that's rare. We have different Majors and she was at a different point in her degree, and I was taken aback by the exceedingly limited likelihood of running into someone like that in an online class of like 30 people.

Fast forward to last night... there's a lady I went to job training with nearly 15 years ago (for the military). We worked together for a couple of years after completing the training, I had a crush on her and we were both fresh out of high school but she always seemed to bounce around between relationships and I was too timid/passive to just come out and make a move. She ended up marrying some guy, moving to Japan, getting divorced, dating some other guy and that's the last I ever really heard about her. Then I'm at this exclusive dinner party with maybe forty people total at it, and my wife recognizes this lady instantly and I'm like "no friggin' way". She is now married to someone at a local command that was attending this party.

There are even dumber examples like ordering a snack out of a vending machine only to see it's the last one of its kind - there's something different behind it in the machine... twice in one day at two different institutions when I don't even normally buy from vending machines.

It feels like these life circumstances happen just to mock me or make me question reality or something. Anyone else experience random shit like this?

Idunno

seems like im destined for this kind of things

OriginalPlain2 posted...

Idunno

seems like im destined for this kind of things

have you had similar experiences?

I've never really believed in "destiny" but when stuff like this happens it makes you question things.

something pretty weird happened when I was in high school.

I went to one school for a year in 9th grade, but I asked my mom to let me transfer to another school for the 10th, and while I was there, I met this dude, and we ended up being friends.

about halfway into the 10th grade, I decide I want to go back to my previous school, and my mom is cool with it since she doesn't have to drive me in the morning. anyway, when I get back to my old school, the dude I became friends with transferred there too, and I didn't even tell him about it. he was even in my English class.

for the end of 10th grade, we had to do this sophomore project, but I was out of class for a few days because I got into an accident where I broke my arm.

when I get back to class, I was placed in a group because I wasn't there to choose, and the group I'm in includes the dude I was friends with.

that's not even the interesting part - my family is from Rwanda, but I was born and raised in the US, and for our sophomore project, out of everything they could have chosen, they chose to report on the Rwandan Genocide while I was still out, and I hadn't even told anyone in the group about my background.

also, the dude I was friends with was part of this group for school where they met the former king of Rwanda while he was in DC.

I just thought it was really strange when all these things clicked together.