by William Smithy

Created on: September 29, 2009   Last Updated: October 02, 2009

Coincidence vs. Orchestration

A long time ago me and a friend had the gumption to take off from Fullerton with 60 dollars, a boom box, and my musical instrument. Our goal was to make it to Seattle and within a few days we rolled in on fumes, broke, tired, and hungry. Several days later, while we were hitting the street trying to get up enough money to get back to San Francisco, we met this woman downtown that we chilled with for the day. She found out that we were headed back to San Francisco and handed me a letter to give to her musician friend there, just in case we ran into him. All she gave us was his name, Alex, and a description of his hair, that he had a small lock of hair dyed blond above his left ear. Well, we ran into Alex in the middle of San Francisco a few days later and gave him that letter. From that day on I was a firm believer that coincidences like that happen, but have since changed my mind entirely. Some would have maybe gone farther and described it in spiritual terms, like it was meant to happen or that the stars of the cosmos were aligned that day or some bullshit like that. However, I now believe that it was nothing more than a very fine tuned estimation on that lady's part in Seattle. You see, some people just know more about the way people act, their habits, their ways of thinking, how they react emotionally to certain stimuli; so much so that the way things turn out may seem like an act of divine intervention or perhaps convey to others that a person posses psychic powers or perhaps that the whole run-in was a lucky coincidence.

Now coincidence is the word I rummage through over and over in my mind. The definition for coincidence that Webster's dictionary gives, states that it is "...the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection." There is no doubt in my mind that people in this world are on similar trajectories that happen to coincide with one another, however I believe that those accidental events are much less prevalent than the events that people orchestrate to look coincidental. These events are actually very easy to manipulate in everyday life, especially when the people orchestrating those encounters have unscrupulous agendas and have no qualms about just straight up lying about it. Even if those agendas aren't so unscrupulous, let's face it, most people lie every day about things. They lie to people they know about who they don't know, they lie to people that they don't

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