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It just happens

You are reading this article. That is coincidence.

No. This one is not crappy…

There is this small theory about life that I have assimilated after a lot of introspection over the past, maybe 5-6 years.

I do not know whether I can lay claim to this because I have sometimes seen similarities in what others feel about life.

So here goes, I call it the THEORY OF CO-INCIDENCE.

To start with, let me present some situations for you…

Think of the person who you met last. Or better, one who you spoke to last…

Just think back and try to gather when you met him / her for the first time. (to be effective don’t think of your parents or siblings…at least not yet)

Could you think back a few minutes before that, and then start constructing a ‘what-if’ situation if in case you haven’t met him/her.

If you are going around with someone, can you think of a situation wherein you haven’t met him/her?

Can you think of a situation where you missed the train that you actually got into? Imagine the possibilities…

Start seeing the world from above, and peer at the earthlings moving helter-skelter, chasing something, looking for something, or thinking what to do next…

What if you plucked some one and then placed him in some other part of the earth…Imagine the experiences he/ she would have gone through…

We live in this maze with a lot of possibilities arising out of each step that we take…the pace at which we walk or engage another can give rise to situations.

Say, you were supposed to catch the 9:20 am local train. Instead your arrived early and caught the 9:10 local. Then you met Uma. She was your class mate in school. She talked about her marriage, and that happened to be your friend from college. There…you do a high five calling it co-incidence.

Now what if you would have actually got into the 9:20 local. You would have probably met a sweet looking girl who asked you the way to a supermarket. You tell her that even you are also headed that way and volunteers to escort her…then as you are about to cross the road, a car slams her and she is injured…that takes you to the hospital….and so on and so forth… the possibilities are huge.

Every moment that we live in this world is borne out of a huge list such equations falling into place.

Your birth itself…of that one sperm among millions…it is co-incidence dear!

I believe there is nothing unfortunate…everything happens around possibilities.

You probably will get a sense of it only if you were to rest.

Despite doing nothing wrong, some bad things happen to people. That is because of co-incidence. Somewhere, some one was responsible for this.

We live in a mutually inclusive world. Our actions, no matter big or small has a bearing on something else. You can explain everything with the help of this maze that I call co-incidence.
So next time you need to act, think…

And be thankful for every moment you are alive.

And for everything else… "it just happens".

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MSP said…
Now thats a thought provoking theory..
February 19, 2007 4:14 PM
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