Signs, Serendipity and Kismet

I agree with every word of that.  Not only are humans the only animals to ask why but we are also the only animals to know when something is wrong or right (through anything other than a survival instinct or some kind of Pavlovian response).  I'm no anthropologist, so I can't begin to answer questions as to why this is the case, but I find the whole topic fascinating.  We are always asking questions, and very often ones which have no answers.  Science can't yet tell us everything we want to know, and obviously as a Christian I would say that science would almost certainly never be able to explain everything.  But scientists have isolated, for example, the parts of the brain which deal with emotion, the parts that deal with logic and memory, and that is a start.

'What if's?' are fun.  But I like the idea, a la 'Back to the Future', 'Quantum Leap' etc that in another dimension there is another Vicky who is living in Washington and working in the White House because *this* Vicky took up that internship in 1999.

Vicky

I'm just glad I haven't seen the word 'soulmate' in this discussion yet. 

It's only a matter of time!


Vicky

I don't know if I believe in signs, but some of the worst periods in my life have led me to really great opportunities.  I believe in balance (jeez, now I'm sounding REALLY new-agey).

I don't know if I believe in signs, but some of the worst periods in my life have led me to really great opportunities.  I believe in balance (jeez, now I'm sounding REALLY new-agey).

I've had similar experiences. Sometimes the worst things that happen can motivate us to try harder to achieve something and that extra push is all that is needed to make it happen.

I've had similar experiences. Sometimes the worst things that happen can motivate us to try harder to achieve something and that extra push is all that is needed to make it happen.

This is how it's been for me too.  I don't generally have "good times" and "bad times".  It seems to get mixed up together and be good/bad/scary/promising/tragic/hopeful all at the same time.

I do believe in fate...my fiance and I met in a chatroom on Paltalk and he wasn't looking for anything he just wanted to chat with someone. And because I said hello to him in the chatroom he started up a conversation. If he hadn't been in that chat room or said hello to me we would have never talked and never became friends and then we would have never been planning our wedding for this August. So I do believe in Kismet but I also believe that there is fate and kismet but you still have to do the work to make it work.

New serendipity...

DBF and I were going to spend the week before we can move into our flat in France visiting friends. It wasn't perfect, but it got me there a week earlier so I could spend time with DBF. I went to buy the tickets, but they'd doubled in price, so we opted out and were wondering what to do with ourselves for our homeless week. Then DBF's mum offered us their friend's caravan in Bamburgh for the week. It's so perfect! We can hang out just the two of us and get reacquainted, walk on the beach, explore Northumberland, and just be alone. It's amazing!! 

Today was my first moving-to-a-foreign-country freakout. I was pondering calling one of my friends so I could get a much-needed hug when my doorbell rang. Standing there was Meghan returning some makeup. Meghan, my friend who had, a decade ago, moved to Ireland for two years... someone who knows EXACTLY what I'm going through! She came at the exact right moment bearing the exact right thing to say/do. I got the hug I needed, some great advice, and encouragement that this is exactly where I should be in the process. And I didn't even have to pick up the phone to get it!

What movie it that with Mathew Perry?

I know a quote in the movie it says, "There are signs everywhere..."

We all have free will but I also believe in fate, gut instincts, signs and whatever else you want to call it.  Things work out for a reason and they also don't work out for a reason.

I am sure you will have more freak outs but something will also calm you down - it may just be yourself that calms you down ;-)

*note worse sentence EVER typed*

 I have been wanting to come be with my fiance for quite a while now, but things hadn't been falling into place until I started packing all the stuff in my apartment this week.
 During this week my df got a job, the horrible father of my child decided to sign the papers to let us go, and a man called me tonight and said he wants to buy my car tomorrow! This is after everything had been at almost a standstill for the whole summer.
 One day while I was packing, and stressed to the max wondering if I was doing the right thing by moving over, I picked up a speaker and underneath it was this twine ring that my df had tied on my finger during lunch on my first day visiting him in England. That thing had been missing for AGES!! It was almost a twilight zone moment for me.
 (And then I found 50 quid about an hour later.)
 The universe suddenly wants me to go to England, and who am I to deny it, right?
 

I have been wanting to come be with my fiance for quite a while now, but things hadn't been falling into place until I started packing all the stuff in my apartment this week.
 During this week my df got a job, the horrible father of my child decided to sign the papers to let us go, and a man called me tonight and said he wants to buy my car tomorrow! This is after everything had been at almost a standstill for the whole summer.
 One day while I was packing, and stressed to the max wondering if I was doing the right thing by moving over, I picked up a speaker and underneath it was this twine ring that my df had tied on my finger during lunch on my first day visiting him in England. That thing had been missing for AGES!! It was almost a twilight zone moment for me.
 (And then I found 50 quid about an hour later.)
 The universe suddenly wants me to go to England, and who am I to deny it, right?
 

Awesome! I was wondering what was going on with you... It sounds like everything is working out!