Destined To Link Up One Final Time

In this story the lady, who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, is of the opinion that we are perhaps destined to meet certain people at specific times during our lifetime. In this case this happened for a final time because of her dreams.

Many years ago, after a painful divorce, I had a long affair with a married man (sorry!)

It ended amicably, he went on to have a good life and I remarried.

I was on holiday in France 20 years later when I dreamed about this man for two consecutive nights, which I thought strange.

I found his telephone number and rang his wife, claiming my husband was a friend of his, and she said that he was in hospital.

I telephoned the hospital and the nurse gave him the telephone.

He immediately recognised my voice, and we had a long chat about our lives. We kept in touch for a couple of weeks, then contact stopped.

I found out that he had suddenly died.

It seemed I was destined to make contact with him again before he died.

~ anonymous

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It's strange how sometimes we meet up with someone from the past as if it was destined to be. Who knows the reason: closure perhaps or to reignite the friendship? Here's such an event, a coincidence if you like, that brought two people together for a brief meeting. The story is by Cecil Webb.

I met my future wife, Doreen, at Heathrow airport when she was flying with Hunting-Clan Airlines.

I had a great (female) friend who worked for another airline, but when I met Doreen our friendship faded as we found other interests,

I left Heathrow and, after Doreen and I married, I was working at Gatwick airport and Doreen was in the crew rostering office of British United Airways that was formed after Freddie Laker drew various independent airlines together, including HCA.

During the late Sixties I had to travel to Heathrow for a meeting. I stopped at a roundabout to give way to another vehicle and the driver and I looked at each other in astonishment.

It was my old friend from Heathrow and, what was more, we were driving similar vehicles. I followed her into a lay-by and we both got out and, after a friendly hug, we exchanged updates of the past ten years during which we had both married.

I was running late for the meeting and she was rushing to the airport to meet her husband coming off a shift. We said a brief farewell and never thought of exchanging phone numbers or addresses.

If I had arrived at that roundabout a minute earlier, or a minute later our paths would never have crossed.

~ Cecil Webb

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The Biggest Coincidence Of All Is That You Are Reading This

Have been pondering a little about coincidences and fate, destiny and all that sort of thing. I didn't reach any final conclusions - I never do, I'm not sure anyone does. But when you think about such aspects of life it does make you realise the fragility of life and the miracle that any of us are here right now. We are one big coincidence.

If you take yesterday's post as an example. Two people met by coincidence, or whatever you may prefer to call it. As a consequence they went on to marry and have six children, 15 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. If they hadn't have met that's 32 people who would never have been born - and hundreds, maybe thousands, possibly even many more to come in the future

It's the same with any of us if our grand-grand-grand-grand parents had never met, perhaps by accident - and going backwards in time to many, many more levels - then you wouldn't be reading this now and I wouldn't have written this post. We wouldn't be here - or would we?

Are we all just coincidences, fortunate to be here at odds of millions to one against, or is there something deeper behind why we are here at this time?

I won't ramble on, but our brief existence on earth, at this time, is a pretty remarkable coincidence, to say the least. Or maybe not ...

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The Red Thread Of Destiny Tightens

It's as if we are meant to see certain things. On Saturday I published a post, The Red Thread Of Destiny Which Connects Us For Eternity.

It was about how author, Ann Hood, was adopting a child from China and was quite shocked to learn that the baby found for her was born on the same day as her daughter, Grace, who had died three years earlier.

I mentioned in the post  about how there is a Chinese belief that we are linked to our children (and others) by a red thread.

I was doing some research on something completely removed from China, adoption and the red threads of destiny, when I came across a newspaper, The Free Lance Star, which was dated December 21, 2004.

It was as if it was shoved in front of my face: there was an article by Marcia Armstrong, about, yes, China, adoption and red threads.

Marcia, who was in the process of adopting, went on to write:

"And, it is. Finally. It is. [the adoption of a Chinese baby].

He sits on the bed and repeats the information the agency representative is telling him so I can write the answers.

"Girl," he says, "Normal health."

"Birthday," he says. Then he stops, even though I'm sure the agency lady is telling him something I should be writing down.

He draws a deep breath.

"She is 2 years old," he says. "Her birthday is September 27."

He is stunned by this information. Because his mother, who died last year, was also born on September 27.

It takes him all the composure he has to listen as the agency lady tells him the child's name and which province she is in.

He looks at me and points to the date I've written on the paper.

"Red thread," he whispers, "This is our red thread."

The lady says she's sending him pictures by e-mail. Then the call is over, and my husband and I ..."

So virtually identical stories.

The same day as I saw Marcia Armstrong's article someone left a comment on one of my posts, which appears to be an example of the red thread shortening and bringing two people together:

"I wouldn't call this a love story as yet but I've had what I consider to be against the odds meetings with a woman in my building.

We met in my building elevator two weeks ago and had a conversation for the first time. I realised I'd last seen her two years ago and, at that time, assumed she was just visiting. As it turns out, she's been living only several doors away from me.

That was on the Monday and by Friday, I came across her in a company I've visited regularly for several years. She also works there but I never knew.

Our working hours are substantially different so the chances of meeting are quite rare; hence not having seen her for two years. However, in the last two weeks, we've had chance meetings every few days.

This morning, for example, she popped into my head in terms of  'I wonder what time she actually does leave for work' and there she was as I turned around. I told the story to a friend and this prompted him to joke that it was if I was stalking her!"

Sometimes it does seem that we are drawn to people by synchronicity - when the time is right, The red thread shortens until there is no escape from our destiny.

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The Red Thread Of Destiny Which Connects Us For Eternity

I was reading an article in a newspaper which mentioned how in China there is a belief that an invisible red thread connects the important people in our lives.

There are various variations on this theme: the red thread links us to the person we should marry or links us to the child destined to be ours, either naturally or through adoption.

With the second of these variations there is an interesting story about the writer, Ann Hood, whose daughter, Grace, tragically died at the age of five.

Ann went through the agonies of losing a child, but three years later the idea developed within her that she should adopt a baby from China. The procedures for doing so were followed and eventually she received notification that a child had been found for her and her husband.

The social worker handling the adoption gave Ann the details, "She's healthy and she's nine months old, born on the 18th of April."

This was a shock, as the 18th of April was the day that Grace had died.

Fate, destiny, synchronicity, coincidence, call it what you will, but since then Ann has found similar examples over and over. Her niece's baby boy was born on her grandfathers birthday. She found that her friend had chosen the 6th of September as her wedding day, without realising that this was also the day her grandparents had married. Even in the group of ten families who travelled with her to China, three of the adopted babies had the same birthdays as those of deceased members of their new families.

There are many legends of the red thread of destiny or fate. The following is from Wikipedia:

"One story featuring the red string of fate involves a young boy. Walking home one night, a young boy sees an old man (Yue Xia Lao) standing beneath the moonlight. The man explains to the boy that he is attached to his destined wife by a red thread. Yue Xia Lao shows the boy the young girl who is destined to be his wife. Being young and having no interest in having a wife, the young boy picks up a rock and throws it at the girl, running away.

Many years later, when the boy has grown into a young man, his parents arrange a wedding for him. On the night of his wedding, his wife waits for him in their bedroom, with the traditional veil covering her face. Raising it, the man is delighted to find that his wife is one of the great beauties of his village. However, she wears an adornment on her eyebrow. He asks her why she wears it and she responds that when she was a young girl, a boy threw a rock at her that struck her, leaving a scar on her eyebrow. She self-consciously wears the adornment to cover it up.

The woman is, in fact, the same young girl connected to the man by the red thread shown to him by Yue Xia Lao back in his childhood, showing that they were connected by the red string of fate."

It's not only soul mates or children who are connected in this way. It is often said in China that when a baby is born, he or she is already connected to the important people in his or her life. As each birthday passes the threads shorten and tighten, bringing together those who are fated to be together.

Others say that the red thread connects not just people from the present, but also those from the past and the future. The thread may tangle or knot but it never breaks.

Perhaps we are connected to some people for eternity.

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Photo: Kent Online

Here's a coincidence story to rival my popular Married Couple In The Same Photo As Children and Photo Taken Of Father Showed His Missing Daughter posts. The odds against such things happening must be pretty high.

Six year old Nick Wheeler was making sandcastles on a sandy beach in Cornwall along with his sister and cousins. It was at Mousehole to be precise (yes, it's a real place name). His grandfather snapped a photo (above) of them playing, as grandfathers tend to do.

Nick, with his family, were on holiday at the time and had travelled to Cornwall from Kent, about 300 miles away.

About a year later Nick's family decided to move to Newlyn, Cornwall.

All straight forward, the years ticked by, and 11 years later Nick was attending the Sixth Form College in Truro, Cornwall where he met Aimee Maiden. The couple fell in love and later got engaged.

Time rolled on again and Nick was showing his family photos to Aimee when suddenly she shrieked, "That's me!" And there she was in her blue swimming costume playing in the sand just a few feet away from where Nick was building a boat out of sand.

Aimee explained the amazing coincidence by saying, "The photo was taken by Nick's grandad. Nick is sitting front right in the boat with his sister and two cousins and his family, his mum, uncle and nan are to the right and behind them. To the left and behind his cousin. I'm in the blue swimsuit with my mum, dad and sister."

And the story ends happily because last Saturday Nick and Aimee were married at Gulval Church in Mousehole, Cornwall only a short distance from where the photo was taken 20 years ago.

Comment:

It's strange how this sort of synchronicity happens. It's as if we are linked to certain people in our lives and are occasionally drawn almost together - but the time isn't quite right. For a while I worked in Uxbridge, west London and at that time Karin was living there too. We never met until about 10 or 11 years later, and then miles away in Dorset.

There are so many other stories like this. Here's a few brief versions from comments that have been left on my Married Couple In The Same Photo As Children post:

"This same thing has happened to my husband and I. One day we were at my parents home and he was looking through one of my old scrapbooks of camp and there he was in a picture I had taken six years before I even knew who he was!!!"

"When my husband was in kindergarten he went to the same elementary school that I went to when I was in sixth grade. We lived in the same model house a few blocks from each other. He moved out when he was in 1st grade and I moved out when I was 18 years old. We worked at the same small company when we were 24 years old. We got married and have been married 32 years! Very happy years".

"Hey me and my husband were in the same place, at the same time every weekend for about three months until I was single. When I became single we met at a local club and have been together ever since and its been 5.5 years. So sometimes its not meant to be until its meant to be. Oh and me and my hubs have been married for three years and it still feels like yesterday we just fell in love."  

"When I was 37 I ran into a girl at the deli counter who was my best friend in 4th grade. It was in a completely different town. For some reason I recognized her immediately after 29 years. It's like we are 'tied' to certain people."

This happened to me and my friend! We became friends in high school and one day we were looking at a photo album from when she was a kid, and in a picture taken at community event I'm sitting two people away from her!

It does seem as if there are people we are meant to meet in life, but only when the time is right.

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Fate Smiles As Cyclist Cheats Death Twice

Photo: Maarten de Jong / Twitter

I have written before about how it appears that some people are meant to survive, no matter what. Maybe they have some unfinished business here on earth. This struck home again with the case of Maarten de Jonge and Malaysian Flights MH17 and MH370. With both flights all of the passengers were killed or presumed dead.

Mr de Jong was due to travel on both of these flights but for some reason changed his plans both times.

Maarten is a cyclist with Malaysia's Terenggany cycling team. He actually cancelled his seat on MH17 to save money by transferring to a cheaper flight. He also escaped death on the MH370 because he decided to again exchange his ticket, this time for an earlier flight.

He said of his good fortune, "How happy I am for myself and my family. Though my story is nothing, attention should be paid to the victims."

There was another similar case too. Gert Jansen and his family were turned away from boarding MH17 at Schiphol Airport because it was over booked. He said, "All those faces of people with whom we stood in line, are etched in my memory."

It does make you wonder about fate and the things we may have committed to do in this life.

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A Mother's Instinct Found Her Son's Heart

This is a remarkable story of a mother's instinct.

When John Carter died of a brain tumour his parents were understandably distraught but found comfort in the knowledge that his heart and organs would help save other lives.

John's mother always wanted to trace the person who was the recipient of her son's heart, but this was against hospital rules.

Five years after the transplant Mr and Mrs Carter attended a memorial service for organ donors at St George’s Church in Newcastle. It was then that something almost magical happened.

A Scott Rutherford was giving a reading and Freda Carter explained what happened to the Daily Mail:

"I sat down and turned the page of the order of service ... and a strange feeling came over me. I knew he was the recipient of John's heart. It was irrational as he could have been anywhere in the country. But I was completely hysterical. I couldn't breathe and started making a massive scene. I think it must have been maternal instinct."

There were nurses at the service and they helped Mrs Carter to the back of the church. They listened to what she had to say.

After checking with Freeman hospital, where the heart transplant was carried out, it was verified that the young man, Scott Rutherford, had received John Carter's heart.

Scott met up with Mr and Mrs Carter.

Mrs Carter said, "Scott came up to me and opened his arms and gave me a huge hug, He said he would be eternally grateful for what we had done for him. I asked if I could feel John's heart beat and he let me. It was all I wanted."

Mr Carter added, "John lives on through him. He isn't dead really."

Scott Rutherford was just hours from death when he received John Carter's heart. He explained:

"When I was growing up, I had barely any life. I was miserable and when the heart problems got worse I just wanted to die. I am unbelievably thankful to John and his family for everything they have done for me, The difference to my health is amazing."

Mr and Mrs Carter and Scott Rutherford were destined to meet.

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Here's a quite amazing coincidence story from Jean Donahue. To me it's an example of how there are certain people in our lives that we are meant to meet, when the time is right. Some would call this fate or destiny

"My name is Jean Donahue. My best friend's name is Sue.

Sue and I met for the first time in 1980. She is six years older than me. We grew up in different towns with no friends or relatives in common.

Sue is an artist. She's enjoyed drawing since she was a young girl. When she was a teenager she enjoyed drawing little cartoons about school life. She had some favourite characters she would draw and make up little stories about them.

Sue's mother had kept a scrapbook of some of those drawings Sue had made over the years. Shortly after we met, Sue was at her mother's house and was going through that scrapbook. She came across one of those drawings [at top of post] that said, "Schools prettiest girl, Jeanie Donahue 8th grade." She was taken aback and told her mother, "That's strange, I just met a woman named Jean Donahue."

Now, when she drew that picture my name was not Donahue. It did not become Donahue until 1963 when I got married. That picture would have been drawn sometime in the 1950s. I would have been about 5 or 6 years old at the time.

Over the 30+ years that I've know her, Sue has often shown instances of foresight that is sometimes very eerie, even to herself. To this day, Sue insists that she knew nobody by the name of Donahue as on her drawing, she made the name up."

~ Jean

Jean also told me about the sad time her husband died and how Sue was there for her. Who knows, for sure, but maybe this was why they were destined to meet.

On the day Jean's husband died, Sue saw him running errands in town. Sue has since told Jean that her husband had a greyish look about him and she got a very strange feeling. That night, when he was stricken with a heart attack and she heard an emergency siren in town go off, she just knew something had happened and headed straight for Jean's house. Sue was also with Jean when they pronounced him dead at the emergency room.

It's interesting how people come into, and sometimes leave, our lives. We all have roles to play.

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Kim Wilde, Destiny And UFOs

Kim Wilde the pop star, turned gardener, turned pop star has been promoting her new album Wilde Winter Songbook. Her big hit was Kids in America back in 1981 and her version of You Keep Me Hangin' On went to No 1 in America in 1987. This isn't a music or celebrity blog but Kim has been saying that she is quite psychic - which is a theme sometimes on 67 Not Out.

For example she tells how ...

"I always had this strong sense of where my destiny lay, that I was going to be a singer. Not because my dad was Marty Wilde, it was just an absolute truth that I lived with from a very young age. Maybe a part of me was quite psychic, because we have strong psychics in my family, especially on my father's side."

When asked if there is anything else she predicted she answered ...

"I am tuned into it, a little bit. I don't see ghosts and stuff, but I did see something very unusual in the sky once, which I can only say was a UFO. But there were lots of witnesses, it was in the local paper, it wasn't just me.

"It was on the 26th of June, the day after Michael Jackson died, and me and my mate were in the garden and we saw bright lights in the sky. I have to say there's not a day gone by that I don't think about what the hell it was. It was so huge, two of them, going zigzag for 10 minutes and I could feel the momentum and I knew it was really massive. It could be some very clever thing that someone developed somewhere, but I've got a feeling it wasn't."

Maybe nothing fantastic in her quotes but, for me, the fact that she felt she knew where her destiny lay is as interesting as her UFO sighting. This is something I've never personally had - a distinct unshakeable direction in life. I wish I did but as my Australian blogging friend Darren says, everything we do is "one big mind-boggling ripple effect if you really think about it."

So even though many of us may not have a clear direction in life we are still influencing the people we meet and make contact with whether we realise this or not. Whose to judge that our purpose is any less important than some power driven politician or pop star.

We all have an important role to play.


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The Book Of Fate And Degrees Of Separation

Ella English and LeslieWilliam Moat

Sometimes life makes you think about what might have been, if only things had turned out differently. This in turn leads to subjects such as fate and destiny.

I got thinking along these lines because of an email I received regarding a post I published back in March 2010. This was titled Thought Of The Day: The Sadness And Sorrow Of War. It featured a letter (see below) sent to an old aunt, Ella English, informing her that her fiancé had been killed in the second world war.

I received the email out of the blue and it was from a relative of Sapper Moat (Ella's fiancé) who was researching her family tree.

The lady hadn't realised that Leslie Moat was ever engaged, and didn't know of Ella English. Fortunately I had a photo of the couple to show her, which was handed down to me from my mother when she died.

All in all I thought the email to be quite a coincidence, synchronicity if you like, showing how we are all linked together. This got me pondering what might have been.

If Sapper Moat hadn't have been killed he would have married Ella English and no doubt they would have had children and a whole new family - which could go on for many generations - would have been created. As it was Ella never married.

Oh, and the lady who wrote me the email would have become one of my relatives! Who knows, we may have got to know each other quite well. But it wasn't to be, so we never met or knew of each other - except for the recent email.

Whether we like it or not we are all linked and related but, by 'fate', have never met. So what we do must affect everyone else, because we are all part of everything. Okay, it may be in a minimal way but it could also be in a huge way. Who's to tell.

Receiving the email I mentioned was strange because the one before that was also from someone I didn't know. He wanted to use an image from my blog and went on to say he lived in northern Germany. This just happens to be where my wife was born and lived until a teenager. Another 'coincidence'.

Again this stressed the connections between all of us and goes along with the proven idea that we are all linked by six degrees of separation.

I also mentioned fate and destiny at the beginning of the post and was reminded of a passage from a poem Essay on Man by Alexander Pope:

 Heaven from all creatures hides the Book of Fate,

All but the page prescribed, their present state ...

O blindness to the future, kindly given, 

That each may fill the circle marked by heaven:

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,

A hero perish and a sparrow fall,

Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,

And now a bubble burst and now a world.

Wonder what the Book of Fate has in store?

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Liz Jones is a UK newspaper columnist and diary writer for You magazine. I featured one of her stories previously: The Voices Of Dead People Captured On Tape.

A change of track today for Liz as she wonders, via a coincidence, whether our destiny is simply all laid out before us.

"On Friday night, I went to meet my friend Issy in the pub. She told me a spooky story.

Her friend had just lost her dad. She was in his house, going through his things, and found a picture she had drawn as a small child.

It was of a large pink paper crown, the sort you get in a Christmas Craker, and next to it she had written, in crayon, the word 'heaven'.

She emailed a photo of this to Issy, followed by another email, the photo she had taken of her dad at Christmas, just a couple of days before he died. In the photo, he is wearing a large pink paper crown.

I wonder if our destiny is waiting for us, even when we are six or seven. It is all laid out. It unfolds, like a cream carpet."

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