To think this is freaky … FREAKY?

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On Thursday , 22nd August this year I journaled in my diary that I felt down and wished I’d gone to a certain school which happened to be 150 miles away from where I grew up - different city in a completely different UK region. My own school was terrible. I wrote in my diary that I was bitter about my background and if I’d gone to the school 150 miles away - I’d met someone on holiday who went there - I feel I’d have been much happier in life. I named the school SPECIFICALLY on my diary - it’s the first time in my life I wrote down that I wished I’d gone to a specific school.

3 days later - Sunday, August 25th - I’m on holiday at a B & B and I completely randomly meet someone who went to the school I wanted to go to. We had a convo and this info unfolded during the course of the convo. The B & B was 300 miles away from my ‘dream’ school - a COMPLETELY different region of the UK.

At no point did I give the person a ‘heads up’ that I ever wanted to go to the school or knew anyone who’d been there and I was on my own having a convo with them so no ‘friend’ could’ve leaked it.

so in a nutshell -

I write in my diary I wanted go to a specific school - first time in my life I’ve done this - and 3 days later I completely randomly meet someone who went to said school 300 miles away from said school..

I mean of ALL the schools literally in the UK!! And given we’re the same age we would’ve been at the school at the same time.

AIBU to think it’s freaky ?

thanks for reading if you’ve made it this far

And what was their experience of it?

I am confused.

So you had already met someone who went to school there, then you wrote it in your diary, then you met someone else who went to school there?

I wrote in my diary that I was bitter about my background and if I’d gone to the school 150 miles away - I’d met someone on holiday who went there

It is a really interesting coincidence!

It's easy to start feeling that such things are 'freaky' but you have to consider all the coincidences that don't happen - all the random things you think about that someone doesn't later bring up in conversation.

They left with 5 CSEs

(this gives a clue as to age)!

They said it as rough as a badger’s xxxx! 😂

You journaled in your diary?
Do you ever diarise in your journal for a change?
Coincidences happen. Not freaky. Certainly not uppercase FREAKY

I already met someone who went there back in 1985 .

i wrote it in my diary in 2024. I met someone else who went to school there in 2024 - literally 3 days later.

Well the universe has at least answered your question - it sounds like you would have been no better off attending that school.
The Mystic Meg message is the universe wants you to move on with your life!

Hopefully this will give you closure on your unfulfilled wish to have gone there. From your mention of CSEs this must have haunted you for going on 40 years!

Sorry no, I don't think its freaky. It's just a coincidence, many of which happen.

i live in the U.K. now (and did as a young child) but I went to senior school in NZ, last time I was in Germany I met someone who went to my school in NZ, the year above me.🤷🏻‍♀️

haven't given it another though until now.

Unless you're like 19, this school thing is very odd. Maybe you need to talk to someone about it, properly.

True !! Apart from people who like ‘a bit of rough’ as it were - but maybe that’s a subject of a different thread 😆

I am indeed - a haunted fossil 😂- creaky joints etc!! 😂

I mean I think it'd be freaky if you got a letter from the school saying they're very sad you didn't attend and they've been thinking about you too.

This is just a coincidence.

It’s a very vague coincidence I would not think much of it.

Here is an awful coincidence, there was an awful death a few years ago in Yorkshire that hit national headlines. My mate who I worked with in Nottingham knew the guys Dad and was quite a good friend of his. My Mother in law who has lived in Surrey all her life was friends with this guys Mum and had gone to school with her. My MIL and friend had never met and still haven’t but were both supporting the respective parents at the same time.

🤣 fair enough !!

Blimey sorry to hear this 😥

You post made me laugh! Mystic Meg. You mean, Septic Peg? 😆

OP, I adore a coincidence. And I totally believe the universe talks to us... lots of meaningless stuff that's more, "Yeah, that WAS a good school and I'll throw something onto your Life Path to confirm you're right, you should have gone there," than any extraordinary, life changing stuff.
Still, I like when the universe yaps away. It reminds us that we ourselves are a mystery among mysteries. And now I've got Hugh Laurie singing 'Mystery' in my head.

Was the person you met in 1985 a romantic interest - so really you were regretting a possible lost love, rather than the school? That makes a bir more sense - we've all thought wistfully about teenage loves.

It's an interesting coincidence. There's nothing freaky and definitely nothing FREAKY about it.

And you can say arse. You don't need to asterisk it.

Yes !

Coincidence, yes, but to still be giving this headspace so much later is mad, especially when it doesn't sound like it was Eton. For reference I was the first year to sit GCSES in 1988, a very long time ago.

Did you ask the second person if they knew your "lost love"?

AyeupDuck Jeez. That's a bit too wild and woolly! Less coincidence, more truly freaky. That's when you're like, "OK Universe. Stop talking. Don't want to hear you." 😬

I know that’s the thing - if I’d gone to this desired but much rougher school, I’d have no qualms about writing arse! 😂

So there’s your answer! The universe wants you to let this one go!