Coincidences keep happening to me

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I notice a coincidence almost every day is that normal?

Today I was listening to buble and saw his name in a news article while listening.

Yesterday I bumped into my friend and her and my case worker.

That's cool when it happens. Ideally you want coincidences to happen often. It means like your in tune with the universe it's a normal but not common occurance because often people ruin their own lives. Lol

There is no such thing as coincidence! There is only Hitsuzen. [Yuko, XXXholic and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle by ClAMP]
I love quoting that line, since things are always interconnected to me every day.

I don't like it , it scares me

^There's no need to be scared!

I believe in the Divine Providence of God, and that so-called coincidences are His way of letting you know He is there. I think coincidences are cool.

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Coincidences are just how probability works. The coincidental outcome is as likely as any other outcome, but we notice it more because it's significant to us.

coincidences are always occurring because every incident that happens concurrently with another incident is a co-incidence, and as such everything that ever happens is coincidental to everything else.

This is the literal truth. All simultaneously occurring events are coincident, by definition. Human beings don't generally note this, but label only what they perceive to be meaningfully coincident events as "coincidences."

The question that might help the OP not feel fearful about this is: where does that sense of meaning come from?

If you have a religious or superstitious mentality, you will tend to believe that the source of the sense of meaning is external supernatural entities. If you are a naturalist or merely and attentive observer of reality, you will discern that your own mind is the source of your sense of meaning.

The sense of meaningful coincidence that can produce fear is based in imagining supernatural agency and loss of personal control.

An understanding of cause and effect depends on observed coincidences: turning the knob is meaningfully coincident with the door unlatching, pulling the trigger is meaningfully coincident with the ignition of the powder in the shell casing and the bullet exiting the barrel of the gun, turning the wheel clockwise is meaningfully coincident with the car turning right, and so on. This kind of coincidence does not generate fear.

But thunderstorms rolling in as you have an emotional conflict with someone important in your life? Such events may be coincident, but it's easy to recognize that thunderstorms come and go with low pressure systems and weather fronts and that the same kind of emotional conflict has and can occur in any meteorological condition.

The fear of supernatural agency in your life can be strong if you look at the events that seem meaningfully coincident as unique, but if you compare the coincident events with similar events dispassionately, you will become aware of there being no meaningful connection between the events that seemed mysteriously and meaningfully coincident.