Coincidence

Have you ever noticed that how much of your life is determined by coincidences?? You met that guy because of a coincidence, you got the job, because someone dropped out, moved on, or maybe you happened to read that news paper that you never picked.

 

Hell, there is an entire movie based on coincidences making its way to Oscars. Ever heard of "Slum dog Millionaire"?

 

I hate them. I really do. They always put the spanner in the plan, and unless the outcome comes, you are hanging there is mid air, thinking, whether it’s good or bad. And if Murphy knew what he was saying, then he has determined the outcome too.

The outcome can best be described as a three letter word....BAD.

Safe to say, where there will be a coincidence, and if there is an outcome that can be BAD, it most probably will be. Don’t believe on me? Blame Murphy.

 So if a thing can happen in a bad way, it most probably will. But coincidence has some good qualities too. All of us use these qualities.

To lie and to catch lies. Have you ever noticed that one thing that you utterly hated, HAPPENED, and has to be explained, relies heavily on coincidence?

If your friend didn’t reach on time, heavy traffic, if she was with someone, just bumped into him, If he got a hike, probably you sucked at the thing at the wrong time.

With a delicately woven multicolored fabric of Ignorance, Trust and coincidence, and promise [exactly in the same order] most bizarre explanations come up. Lifelines drawn, jobs saved, life extended.

Ever heard

“I didn’t know you hated it. Trust me. It was a coincidence. It won’t happen again.”

Explained.

If you have had the misfortune of hearing this, I know that was not the last time. You heard it again, in some different thing, the same pattern.

And now you must be thinking, OH! That’s why it seemed so odd. Well YEAH!!

Another example.

“I didn’t know you would take it this hard. Trust me, you are a good worker.I know your Hike was due, but recession Hit. we will try to make it up in the next Hike”

 

Some where bordering along the lines of politeness , and mistakes we have carved out a territory for coincidence.

I don’t want to lose the trust. I don’t want to lie. I am experienced enough that lies are rational explainations which cannot be substantiated. Lets lie in a way that god’s hand becomes involved.

No one can question GOD’s will, right?

But as easy as it may seem, Coincidence makes u take a substantial hit on your attributed reasoning powers.In other words, your intelligence.

In most of the cases, how do you know that your coincidence bait has been taken?

The dialogue goes like,

“ How did this happen??”

“Coincidence”

“What!!What were you thinking”[Implied, with foresight you could have seen the risk and avoided it. Deeply Implied….I AM CHEWING THE BAIT]

“reinforcing the coincidence”

“Okay”

The other Hit it gives you is in trustworthiness. Coincidence has taken you off the hook. But its like saying that you have used a legal loop hole and pivoted on the trust. The cheat code of the game has been invoked, and questioning the trust is a big step.

So most probably the prey will chew on the coincidence knowingly. May be even go ahead and try to break it with logic for some times invoking more trust based answers.

And both of you know it. And so the eye will follow you through the plains of ROHAN to the end of Middle Kingdom.

 Godspeed.