Is there such a thing as a coincidence?

Tonight I feel compelled to write.

Is there such a thing as a coincidence? They seem to happen daily these days. And I truly believe they’re sent for a reason.

Souls aligning.

Reconnecting.

I think things, and then they are said.

I think of old friends, and they cross my path.

I think it’ll be nice to share the experience with someone, and then that person shows up.

I took out a gym membership to get back in the pool after an agonising few weeks with a torn disc. The time was sent to test me, for that I now realise, to remind me again of the goodness of life when life is good.

This evening was my first night in the pool. And I sat against the side, contemplating life, contemplating the journey, contemplating what’s next.

And in that moment, in walked an old friend.

But not any old friend.

She was once my best friend.

That friend who you inner most connect with.

Our journey was a whole heap of things – love, fierce, strong, havoc, solidarity, termoil. We were young, mid to late teens, we had loved, we had lost, we had argued, we had blossomed. We’d experienced break up, make ups and everything in between. We had done it together.

And then our paths parted, and we went on our separate ways to, I guess… find ourselves through adulthood.

We both engaged, she bought a house, I married and had a baby – all without the other.

And I often wonder what life would have been like with her by my side and vice versa.

And here we are, eight or so years since we last spoke.

And tonight, it’s was like that of yesterday. Now 32, we talked about life whilst meandering leisurely up and down the pool. She told me she hadn’t swum in 5 months. Tonight was my first night there.

What bought us both there tonight?

What made those paths align?

Coincidence?

Energy connections?

Fate?

Soul alignment?

Whatever it was, I take comfort knowing that some meets are just meant to be.

For my dear old friend.