Coincidence

It's a very common, yet unusual thing, coincidence. Most of the time, you just have to be at the right place at the right time for something to "happen". After this coincidence, which probably happens quite often.

Example: walking into a witness from a trial that I was a juror on...ALL the way across town, as he was on the phone saying "how crazy it was to be on the stand". The stand I nervously saw him on about 1 1/2 before).

Sometimes it's just so weird how timing works itself out. And even stranger, how people perceive it. Some think it's a sign, some think it's fate, or destiny. Most people have an entire belief system to explain the events that happen before them.

But it's all just a conincidence: the noteworthy alignment of two or more events or circumstances without obvious causal connection. The word is derived from the Latin co- ("in", "with", "together") and incidere ("to fall on").