Have you noticed any chain of events that created connections in your life?

The butterfly effect is observable at all times, and in all places. It’s just a matter of how much trust you have in cause and effect, and the theory of relativity. Sollipsism makes it that much more interesting.

That has happened to me so many times in my life. It is said that we simply create patterns out of what are coincidental events, but many times it has not seemed to be that way to me.

What is the difference between what you described and mere propinquity? Chance is not equal to Kismet. Life is random, contingent, temporal and fleeting. Enjoy it while you can.

@pdworkin Dude, I was just asking for interesting stories….I wasn’t saying it was some type of miracle…

In 8th grade I met Larry. Larry was obsessed with the phone company, I was obsessed with Radio and Music. Leaving HS, he went into radio. I got my broadcasters license, then got hired by the phone company as a ship to shore operator, because I had that license.
32 years later, he is in Big Time Radio, and I still work for Ma Bell.

lurve for your topics bc of an asshole i met a prince
I have to agree with @pdworkin Life is random. Here’s my other rmotto: everything happens for a reason. As far as the question goes…that has happened to me. All my life I’ve been waiting for my prince to come. When I was in my freshman year, this guy named Jake* asked me out. We were really good friends and that’s all I wanted…be friends. When he asked me out, I told him “no.” Our friendship was not the same after that moment..it was kinda awkward. By the end of my freshman year, I saw this reallly handsome guy, smart, just beautiful, you name it! It was just a glance at him. When Sophomore year came by, I had 4 classes with him(Richard*) and wrestling. My friendship with Jake was back to normal. He then introduced me to Richard. Richard and I become friends. :) I still don’t know the ending! But as far as I know, he told me he loved me…(Don’t quite know if he meant it). :)
*change in names

@jeanna You stole my answer!

@boots I wonder how… ;) Silly.

@jeanna is @boots your prince charming?

@cyndihugs He is indeed.

Oh yes. Mine are a lot more exreme. Sometimes I think that if a tiny little detail had changed, everything would be different. And my whole life is like that.

In 1993 I attended a media conference and somehow took the wrong turn and accidentally met some Czechs who made records. The following year I went to study at university, and one of my teachers was a former pop star, and helped me record my first album. I’d still kept the address of the factory in Czechoslovakia and went to cut the album there. I eventually got a job as a record producer in Prague. But then I got drafted, the technology changed, and everyone could burn CDs on their own PC, so we went bust. 3 years later, because of this connection with Prague I went to Prague again, couldn’t find a decent job, ended up finding a job in Germany that had accidentally been advertised in the Czech paper, went into a bar one night because my friend wanted to meet his girlfriend there, a band was playing, I picked up the guitar and played a tune, the owner liked it and asked me to come back and sing, he found me a manager and I got myself a career out of nothing. If I hadn’t been lost in that conference in 1993, I would never have ended up in Prague, let alone Dresden, nor would I have had the chances I did.

I got tonnes like that.

This may be long, but it’s true.

‘89 I was born, my Dad left my mom and my mom met a new man. My mom and my new “stepdad” had two kids, a boy and a girl. New Years Eve ‘98. My Mom and Step-dad at the time got into a huge fight, hitting, cursing etc. One thing lead to another they broke up. My Mom met another man, who my mom decided to get a house with. We moved to a different house in a different town and started school. My mom got preggo again, had my littlest brother. My grandma got a divorce and moved in with us, living downstairs. One night in April of ‘04 my mom ended up choking me, I stomped on the ground, grandma saw what was happening, I was taken out of my parents’ custody. Few months later.. I was put back in my mothers house.. Years went by, same shit, different day. ‘07 my mother caused me not to graduate, I stood up to her, she kicked me out. Moved to Florida with my grandma (who was no longer in contact with my mom) finished getting my diploma that same year.
Started talking to a girl went to school with via myspace (we never really talked in school) she had a stickam account so she could sing and get her music out there. I made an account. A month later I met a guy, talked to him for a few months. Flew out to Cali, he asked me to stay, I did. We moved to Oregon, and then the Cayman Islands. He wasn’t making enough money so we moved to Denver since his brother lives here. Now I’m happy, alive and well :] Oh! And in love.

So all in all, if my parents had never divorced, if I had never been abused, if I never stood up for myself, and never took chances meeting someone I had never met before. I wouldn’t be the happiest I’ve ever been, with the most amazing man ever.

When I graduated high school in Illinois and went to college in San Luis Obispo I thought I was living my dream. My parents were footing the bill and I lived in a beautiful location with many opportunities. After two years of spending my time on the beach and not attending class my parents had enough. They told me that I needed to take care of myself or come back home. I took the easy way out. I decided to move back home.

I called my best friend from high school, Scott. I wanted to let him know that I was moving back to Illinois. When I called, his roommate Jon answered the phone. I felt this instant connection with Jon for some reason, even though we were thousands of miles apart. I wrote Jon’s name down next to Scott’s phone number.

When I moved back to Illinois a few days later, the first person I went to visit was Scott. When I walked into his living room I looked down at this 20 year old guy playing a video game. This guy “Jon” looked over his shoulder at me (taking his eyes off the game…gasp!) and I felt that instant connection that I had felt when we briefly spoke on the phone a few weeks before.

If I hadn’t sucked so badly in college, I would never have met my husband Jon and had three children that are doing better than I ever did in school.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

<——-reads @jonsblond‘s story and slits wrists for not having something half that interesting to comment about.—

@evelyns_pet_zebra What are you talking about?!? You have a very interesting life. I wouldn’t consider you a friend if you weren’t interesting! :)

@chelseababyy but you could perhaps have met the same guy anyway, regardless of what happened in your childhood. Sure, perhaps earlier events affect how you decide later, but there isn’t always a direct connection. Sometimes I think that if I hadn’t done some things because one route led me there, I might have ended up there through a different route anyway.

btw your mum sounds like a real crap person, is your dad any better at least?

yep…I was bullied a lot and that has set of major chains of events
bastards

@lynneblundell don’t feel lonely, girl, I was in the same boat, and the only bright side of it is quite a few of the ones that bullied me are either dead or in prison.

@Jack79 I don’t know my dad. And if my mom never did that, my grandma would have never moved to Florida, I wouldn’t have had any reason to move out. I didn’t have a computer at my mom’s, so I would have never met my current boyfriend. Even if I did, there was no way I would have flown out to California to meet him. My mom wouldn’t have approved like my grandma did.

When you step out of the comfort zone a lot of things can happen :P