Fate, destiny, coincidence, have you ever felt these ways?  Or maybe a better question would be to ask what are these terms and do they exist?  In the Webster’s Dictionary they define fate as being “the will or principle or determining cause by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do : destiny”. Well I don’t know anything about that but I can tell you a story that has recently happened to me that made me feel this way.  It was February 6, just two weeks ago and I was invited to attend my friend’s birthday party.  The night started at a dinner party with some cocktails and snacks.  We played some music socialized and watched a hockey game.  The plan was to go out to a bar afterward and then to a keg party as a surprise for the birthday boy.  During that day I kind of had the flu and decided that I would go to the dinner party but head home afterwards.  At around eleven o-clock the party started to call the cabs and I had a decision to make, either ignore my cold and keep the party going or head home.  Well this story wouldn’t have turned out as well as it did if I had headed home.  I decided to go and was pleasantly surprised to have met the girl of my dreams during the keg party.  I’ll keep her name private but if you know me and talk to me then you probably have heard quite a bit about her already.  But it’s funny you know, I just keep thinking about if I hadn’t gone, would we have ever met?  Because as soon as I met her I knew, you know that feeling, like it was meant to be?  Well it was over whelming to say the least.  But it brings me back to that question, what if I didn’t go? We don’t have any of the same friends; we don’t go to the same school, hang out in the same places or even live somewhat close to each other.  So what if I didn’t go?  Would we have met some other way?  I swear, I feel like she’s my soul mate and I just met her.  So I feel like fate or destiny played its part and connected us.  I’m sure that you’ve felt something like this at one point in your life. And this teaches me one thing, we make our foot steps in life but the path that we choose has been determined for us.