To ask if you believe in fate?

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Just that really.

My dh was on the train behind the 7/7 train . He was walking across Victoria station to get it and he bumped into someone he used to work with from a town miles away . So he missed the 7/7 tube . I can't help thinking there was something / someone looking after that day.

But thousands of us could say much the same. DH and I would normally have been on a Piccadilly Line tube together, me heading to Russell Square on my way to the Senate House library, him to work in Covent Garden, at the time the bomb exploded between Kings Cross and Russell Sq - but my little brother was visiting and we stayed up late and didn't sleep well. DH decided to go into work early, and I stayed at home late to have breakfast with DB, so we were both safe. Pure coincidence. I recognised the photo one of the people who was killed as someone who got on at my station and whom I knew by sight. Was no one looking after him that day?

Something more tangible than fate was looking out for him - none of the 7/7 trains ran from or through Victoria...

Oh well maybe it was a different station . I can't say I took in the details as I was glad he was safe . Anyhoo yes you could say it about every story and situation it's true .

'My dh was on the train behind the 7/7 train . He was walking across Victoria station to get it and he bumped into someone he used to work with from a town miles away . So he missed the 7/7 tube . I can't help thinking there was something / someone looking after that day.'

What about those who died then? Guess no one/nothing was looking after them that day , it was just their 'fate' to be murdered.

On the 7/7 thing, I know of someone whose life was SAVED because of 7/7.

Colleague at work's sister was depressed, pretended she was going to work and set off, waited til husband had left home then let herself back in and took a massive overdose.

7/7 happened, husband couldn't get hold of her, so called her work to see if she'd got there ok and they said no she's on annual leave what do you mean?

Husband suspected the worst rushed home and found her in time.

Now I don't believe that's anything other than a random coincidence but its nice to think that a life was saved on that terrible day.

The idea of fate simply gives humans small comfort in a complicated and bewildering world

I think we should have evolved past it.

Nope.

I find the concept of fate utterly depressing. What if I get hit by a car tomorrow; has my entire 31 years of life been leading up to the inevitability of getting hit by that car? I refuse to believe my life is already mapped out.

And as for things like meeting my DH - we met at uni (my first choice uni but his second, he didn't get the a level results to get in to his first choice), was that fate? Nope. I love him to the ends of the earth but if we'd never met I'd have met and married someone else.