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

I remember another random coincidence, when out one night when I was single and about 30 ,I bumped into an EX from when I was 17 ,there were no hard feelings we had broken up after a just a few months and we had both Been very young, he told me he was married etc and we wished each other well bearing in mind we hadent seen each other in 13 years ,it was very strange to bump into him again the very next day whilst I was shopping with a friend!
I haven't seen him since🤣

nope! I would assume they are there to get away from things, not to have their ear bent by a random. I'm guessing they were seen trying to time their breakfast the next day to avoid the potential for long conversation about schooling 50 years ago.

This is meaningless. Coincidences are mostly meaningless.

It's a bit meh I'm afraid 🤷🏻‍♀️

Not very odd. Coincidences happen, that’s why we have a word for them. I once sat opposite someone on the tube from my home town, same train, same carriage, opposite each other, not crowded, both looked up, both recognised each other. Another time I realised someone on a website I knew had been to the same school, though not at the same time.

I don’t think the muggles are going to understand this.

When your brain is looking for something, you find it.

Do this to someone:
ask them look at every thing red thing in the room
Ask them close their eyes and list off all the red things they saw.

Then ask them to keep their eyes closed and list all the brown things they saw

They can’t do it, they were looking for red and focused on that.

This may have come up in other conversations but you weren’t interested before.

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(Also, if you are Irish this type of thing happens every day.)

It’s not that much of a coincidence even… 😂 There are only about 3400 state secondary schools in the UK.

Schools are a seemingly odd coincidence that comes up very often. My dc attended very specialist schools, approx 20 children per year group, and only four schools in the country. Countless times we’ve met someone who has had a family member or friend attend the same schools, and these are people unrelated to the specialism. It’s also happened to me in the past with my very nondescript northern comp. The seven degrees of separation thing is a thing for a reason.

Coincidences feel weird, but the world would be much weirder if there were never any coincidences, given that there are a finite number of people and places in the world.

I think the oddest thing is that you are still dwelling on where you went to school/wanted to go to school so many years later, and introducing the topic with strangers in B&Bs

I don't believe in coincidences. What I do think is that because you'd committed the name to paper, it was more in your consciousness, so you were more aware when you meet someone who named/went to that school.

A similar thing happened to me the other week. I was watching tv and there was a character named Stefania. The phone rang and the caller was called Stefania too.

Last week, I was abroad in a different country visiting a friend. I got chatting to one of his close friends and it transpires we both used to live not only on the same street in London at the same time, but ten houses apart.

I could really go on with things like this!

All these things are freaky, but they're also just one of those things and how the universe seems to work. It's all about energy and one's consciousness.

I experienced coincidences much more incredible than that. As already said, life is full of coincidences, we are just not aware of them most of the time.

I do get that sense of spookiness though, especially at the time.

I love it! Definitely a great coincidence.

Allow me to share my own freaky coincidence, happened when I was aged16/17.

A budget department store was having a "sale" and doors opened at midnight. There were a lot of people at said sale. Once the doors opened, I noticed a worker and was immediately struck by how gorgeous he was! Didn't know his name, didn't see a name tag, but went home and wrote about this guy in my journal! Even told my friends about this dreamy guy I had seen. I think I may have even gone back to said store in the hope of seeing him again.

Anyway, about 3 weeks later I am at a close friends 18th birthday party.... And who should walk in..... My dream guy! He had shaved, when I saw him, he had a beard, but at friends party he was clean shaven, but was definitely him. Amazed, I told my friend, thats him, thats the guy I wrote about in my journal. Unbeknownst to me, she was friends with him, via other people.

Dream boat and I didn't get together that night, it took another one or 2 co-incidental meetings, being in the same place, same time etc, getting to know each other...we ended up dating for about 9 months...

😂

Yes, it is called random coincidence. Get hold of a book about coincidences and you will be amazed at what people experienced. One woman had a poetry book given to her in her school days with some writing from the donor. She gave it away as the year passed. This was in the UK. Decades later she found the same book in a second hand book shop in New York. It happens.

I think you possibly need to some support to let go of this school being the answer to a better life and start focussing on the future and life now.

it's just.. a coincidence. fun tho.

Mainly this though - it's a weird thing to fixate on.

Sheer coincidence that struck you because of the close timings. Honestly, just that, it's not freaky and there's no hidden meaning.

It's an interesting and fun coincidence - maybe a message from the universe, if you believe in such things (must admit I do). I wouldn't say 'freaky' though, it's not that weird!

I have just remembered another one ,years ago I was visiting a friend who was Au pairing in Boston,New England, and got up early one morning so was randomly flicking through the TV channels, and came across a programme about train journeys ( exciting I know ) whilst idly,watching it they featured a very dull train journey, that was from our home town in greater Manchester, to the centre of Manchester, which both of us has taken many times.

Oh give it a break…OP can do whatever they like! You’re telling someone what they can and cannot do like you’re the boss of all the land! if they want to use an asterisk they can, I’m pretty sure they know they don’t need to.

DRFT

Have a google of the "frequency illusion" and "six degrees of seperation".

Plenty of people have travelled hundreds of miles from home, only to bump into someone from the next street, and so on.

I can remember my granny sitting in her armchair, needle and thread in hand, painstakingly patching up the dust bag of her sister in laws Hoover Junior.

About ten years later, after both ladies were long dead, I saw the exact cleaner at a car boot sale. It was unmistakeable. These things happen.