Fate or free will

True story from RPA.

A man was diagnosed with a brain tumour and needed neurosurgery. He was approached by a TV medical series, RPA, to feature his surgery on TV.

A woman watched this man speak on TV about his symptoms to the doctor and then watched him undergo the brain surgery.

This woman had remained single most of her life and had resigned herself to being single. She was determined to focus her life around her work and family. But something about him spoke to this woman's heart. She was not able to forget this man. Weeks later, after watching that episode, she wrote a card to him wishing him well and leaving her contact details to see if he wanted to meet over coffee if he was single. This was something completely out of her character.

The man received the card and was very surprised. He was single. He emailed back.

He told her that he was no longer in the state he was living in. He had moved to Canberra that weekend.

It turned out that this woman had also moved to Canberra during the very same weekend.

And they both had moved into the same apartment building and both were starting new jobs the very next day. She had found her soulmate.

One and a half years later, they are now married and are now expecting their first child.

Story from a nurse who was stalking my intern friend for a date.

Said Nurse, "You know that story of that Jewish man?"

Said my friend, "No what story?"

~There was this Jewish man who was very devout. Everyday he would pray and pray to his God. He would pray to His God that he would one day win the lottery. Months went and years went and everyday he would keep praying. He kept praying and asking for the same thing until the very day he died.

He met God in Heaven and he asked God why God never granted him his wish despite all his fervent prayers.

And God answered, "Well, you never bought a lottery ticket."~

Unfortunately this nurse did not get his date. For now.

Call it fate. Call it free will.

Maybe it's time to take fate into our own hands.