[Y]ou can’t ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence — that’s all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence. […] There are no miracles. There is no such thing as fate. Nothing is meant to be.
— (500) Days of Summer
Exacto!
I actually think things happen for a reason. Don’t think that works with the coincidence theory, so I guess I disagree.
In general, I would agree with you Denise. However, with regards to simple earthly events — too often they seem mundane and casual at first, and their significance becomes apparent only as time goes by. And by coincidence I mean:
Having studied physics, I strongly believe in cause and effect. This quote is a nice way of saying that “nothing is meant to be”.
“All things are by fate, but poor blind man sees but a part of the chain, the nearest link, his eyes not reaching to that equal beam which poises all above.” – John Dryden