Fate, Coincidence or Neither

Today on my way driving home from work, some idiot swerved from his lane to mine. I had to jerk the wheel, forced to make a hard left into the far lane that was thankfully empty.

My heart pounded like some frantic drum for a few minutes. When I calmed down, I thought about what a close call that was. Too close for MY comfort. Being neurotic, images of laying in a hospital bed, tended by austere looking nurses and force fed watery looking jello flashed through my all too active mind.

Then, I wondered if there were other kinds of 'close calls'. Not necessarily horrible close calls, but just by a stroke of fate, you miss meeting someone new. Or buying a scratch it lottery ticket that loses, but the next sequencial one just happened to be a winner.

I wonder just how much fate or coincidence plays into our lives or even if there IS such a thing.

One thing I know to be true, though, is that everything happens for a reason.