Coincidences often feel like life tapping us on the shoulder. They arrive quietly, an unexpected encounter, a repeated theme, a moment that seems too well-timed to ignore. We’re quick to call them random, but most of the time they emerge from paths we’ve already set in motion. Our choices create the openings where these moments appear.
Our choices shape the direction we move, but the direction itself opens doors we never could have planned for. What we call coincidences often turn out to be the prompts life uses to nudge us forward — moments that look random until we realize they were only possible because we changed course in the first place.
When I look back on my own life, every major career decision felt like a leap at the time. But those decisions created openings, encounters, opportunities, and conversations that would never have happened if I had stayed where I was. The “coincidences” that followed weren’t accidents; they were outcomes made possible by the direction I’d chosen.
Maybe that’s the quiet truth behind coincidence: it’s less about fate or chance and more about alignment — the meeting place between intention and possibility. When we pay attention, we see that these moments don’t just happen to us. They happen because of us. And if we follow them with curiosity, they often lead to the next chapter of who we become.
