COINCIDENCE

Ever wondered the kind of impact "coincidence" has in our lives?

Coincidence- the chance factor- things that are said to have just happened somehow the way they did and at the time they did! Everyone knows coincidences happen-afterall they happen with everyone- and mostly we accept them with a variable mix of reactionary surprise, scapegoat-hunting frustration, agony and joy, and move on. But come to think of it, it's not really that hard to realise that these so called coincidental happenings do very often impact our tiny lives and feeble thoughts in a considerably important manner-so much that I almost want to take the liberty of claiming here that the whole of this world is a coincidence in itself, and that the fact that the phenomena of coincidence is called coincidence, and hence often interpreted wrongfully trivially, is a huge irony in itself! So many things, so many important things happen to us and around us based on, caused by and aided by simple coincidences that the realisation itself is pretty overwhelming.

Several of our friends are our friends because of coincidence. We just happened to be in the same place at the same time! It was a coincidence that two people were alloted the same rooms/wings in the hostel, and eventually, they became the best of friends for the rest of their lives as they got to know and like each other better, inspite of the fact that when they first met they were as much strangers for each other as the others around them. It's a coincidence that someone read out exactly the same concept/question on an impulse five minutes before the examination, and it appeared in the exam and he/she aced it. He saw her in a crowd once by chance and was immediately attracted to her. Knew nothing about her at all, and soon she was lost somewhere in the crowd, though her memories weren't. And a few days later, she turned out to be exactly the girl in the pic his mom was trying to show him to convince him to marry the girl. Love, and life, so often, is brought about by a series of coincidences. It's when so many things that could have happened didn't happen, and had little probability to happen or last did exactly that, that the maze of coincidences is woven and life entrapped. Or perhaps released, from the monotony of existence!

So many smiles and tears in our lives have been products of coincidence. Be it the innocent little laugh we break into when we just "happen to" say the same thing at exactly the same time with someone, or the exhilaration when you just made it to the last bus of the night reaching there a split second before, or be it the disappointment that ruined it for us when two or three things cropped up at the same time 'by chance' without notice and made us cancel/forget something more enjoyable, we've all been through these experiences. Some of you might be reading this only because you reached this page as a matter of coincidence, today or a little while ago. Infact a lot of my friends in blogosphere are people who landed up on my blog, or they on mine, purely by chance. Yet, it is a hardcore reality today.

Call it fate, chance, luck, destiny, whatever you wish. The best word is still Coincidence.

This world is a coincidence.

Not all coincidences are pleasant, but neither is world, and neither is life. Coincidence is something even providence can't account for, coincidence is Someone's way of telling us...
It's meant to be!

Zindagi ittefaq hai...Kal bhi ittefaq thi, aaj bhi ittefaq hai!