Do we meet by accident?

In life, I think, there is no "accidental". Everything in this life, consciously or unconsciously, is already be plan and planned.

Hi, You are right. Every person we meet in our life is needed in our lives. There is some reason behind the meeting. We should be nice with everyone and we should accept everything which comes in our life. When we have frustrating situation we should think over it patiently and positively. We should every moment of life as if it is last moment in our life.

I definitely don't think that we encounter the people that cross through our lives by chance, I believe that there is a reason that each person crosses through our lives. Some of the people that cross through our lives are there only for a moment and others are there for a long time. There are also people that have a positive impact on our lives and others that leave a negative impact. Regardless of this, I do think that everyone does come through our lives for a reason.

I think the answer is yes and no. Let me explain this. Most people in and out of our lives are all met by accident. You know, like the saying, all the worlds a stage and the people in it are merely players. Well, there are also people that we meet for a reason. Call it destiny, call it serendipity, whatever. I do believe that certain people belong together, whether they ever wind up together or not. I know this from life experience. And there is a such thing as soul mates. Now, remember, this is coming from someone that is not religious nor believes in much of anything. It seems to be more cosmic then miraculous. But at the same time as I believe this, life itself is not fair. And again, I say this from my life experience.

there is no such thing as coincidence. we meet people for some reasons, we cannot be in the wrong place at the wrong time. We may never realize this at once but time comes that we will find out the reasons why. There are people in our lives who are meant to stay while some have to go. Some might be away for awhile but there are some who are just around. It is all up to us how we value these people we meet. we learn a lesson or two from those people we come in contact with, be it a good one or a bad one. Still, the intersecting point that we meet in the middle let us believe that they have no great importance and that is our choice.

I believe that is true that we do meet people for a reason but sometimes the people that we meet in life can be a lesson for us to have to learn, the thing is though that lesson may not always be easy like our relationships and that person is hard to get out of our life.

I think not, anything that happens is by purpose, though were not aware of its purpose but still it has a purpose, or sometimes by choice. Like for example from work to home, and always you pass the same route, the people you pass by in route to home is not by accident but i guess by choice, you choose that way then you always have to pass by people who use also that route. The people that came into our life has also a purpose, the friends we have, the love we have, and so on. In the process anything can happen, we can be hurt or enjoy happiness and anything. And we must see to it that we must be aware of what is happening, in order for us to be able to control the situation. Failures in our life has a great help to us to become strong as a person. Though there are others that is having difficulties in accepting the failure the suffer, but let us try our very best to move on and use the lesson learned. And always think that there is tomorrow and tomorrow is another day.

Hi savypat, I am convinced that we meet no one by accident. Even casual acquaintances are in our life for a purpose. I also think that we knew them all before coming here. Blessings.

Well I must say that so many times in my life I kind a found out why I met someone, usually it was to learn something or to teach something somebody else. About 2 years ago I started this wonderful love story with this wonderful man and we were very much in love. Before that relationship I had 2 long ones but in thouse 2 relationships I didn't love very much, at least I thought I didn't because after 6 years the sparks were gone and as I was in my mid twenities I thought i wanted something more. So this new guy approucehed me in a bar and swept me off my feet. I was finally feeling what I was dreaming about for several years! I was longing to see him when we weren't together, there was no appointment I wouldn't cancel in order to spend time with him, and he was the same way too. Then all that started changing. He started lying and I started wondering if any of the words he ever said to me was truth. He was a difficult person, coming from a difficult disfunctional family and I spent a whole year believing he was sent my way so that I could help him understand and learn what a family was. But he brought the customs and behaviour he learn in his family to my family and those customs were mosty lies and discrispect but he saw nothing bad in it because he was used to it and he thought that's the way life was supposed to be lived. Later I realised he was sent to me as a lesson to be learned, that the relationships I had before weren't scarced in love but in conflicts and that peaceful relationship is what I actually wanted.

I think our birth i accidental. But the consequences we experience is not accidental. It is the result of our deed. Joy and sorrow both are the results of our deed.

I definitely know it is not an accident to have certain people in our lives. They are in our lives for a particular reason. Maybe we cannot see it at first but it's there. And your right when things are going rough we should look and see what lesson we can learn from it, because in almost all cases there is some lesson to be learned from bad times.

I think it's not important if we meet people accidentally or not. What counts is that at the moment we do meet someone, we do get involved, we are open to it. No matter if it's just for a short moment (a chat) or on longer terms. I think the most important thing we should do/learn is to take care of ourself, be responsible for ourself, our own goals, needs. To love and pamper ourself. Since we are born alone and we will die alone. So it's normal to get to know yourself first and be your own best friend. If you are that far you appreciate, love, pamper yourself you are full of energy and will be able to give someone else a hand as well. Accepting, to try to live with it.. takes a lot of good energy and in the end it will not work. Some experiences we have to give a place in our life, others we have to fight or must change or should remember so it won't happen to us again. Tell yourself each morning if you wake up: this is gonna be the best day of my life and I will do everything for me to make that come true. If you do that for you, you will see your frustration will be gone and your view will be more and more possitive!

I actually believe in that everything happens for a reason. So I think everyone we meet is not accidental. :) And I've kind of experienced that even the bad things happening to me had a reason for them.

Sorry to be the party pooper, but the whole grand plan thing and fate doesn't sound right to me. If everything or a large chunk of our life is already mapped out, pre-destined then what is the point? It would mean that we have no free will... Now, how can we think that it is all planned. I do believe that every chance meeting or aquaintance is an accident. Once we have met these people, some of them stick around and some of them become very important in our lives... And that is when we can not imagine our lives without them - It must have been fate right? Doubtful - Think of all the friends and family you have met or had over your lifetime. At the tme, they were important - Are they all still important or relevant to you today?

I definitely know it is not an accident to have certain people in our lives. They are in our lives for a particular reason. Maybe we cannot see it at first but it's there. And your right when things are going rough we should look and see what lesson we can learn from it, because in almost all cases there is some lesson to be learned from bad times.

I used to believe that every person we meet has a special and unique purpose. However, as I continue to have that belief it seems very dry and sometimes confusing in finding out what's the purpose of meeting such person. And at the present, I somehow disagree with that. :)

I have thought about this for several days now. I think we are placed in different places at diff. times. Im sure this is done by the man above.

I do not think if anything happen on accident, there is no accident , everything happen here for a reason that only wise one will understand that. the one who live only in present time will be able to catch those messages.