The most important post you will ever read

This is an edited version of a post I made to Facebook, with a few additions to connect it to English class.  I just had to share this with the world...perhaps someone will come along and find this blog and be like "HOLY MOTHER OF CHUCK NORRIS!!! Mind: Blown!"

A couple weeks ago I posted a quote (on Facebook) from the movie Signs, that ends: "Is it possible that there are no coincidences?" I've been gathering personal evidence on the subject through my experiences before and since I posted the quote on Facebook. My finds: startling. In another post approximately a week or two after the post, I described an encounter I had with a ditch in the dark, in which a subconscious decision pushed my body to left, avoiding a ditch I couldn't see. Another example happened just today. In the past couple weeks I had been seriously considering the possibility that perhaps, just perhaps, the world I live in isn't really real, that instead it's a dream, or a simulation, or something like The Matrix. I pondered it today while I was making dinner for myself. I made the decision to eat downstairs so I could watch TV-a normal decision for me when I'm home alone. As it turns out, Through the Wormhole, a show on the Science Channel that questions things in the world, was on. And somehow, the episode that was on while I was eating dinner...was precisely what I had been considering the moment before. Is this world really real? I could truly list hundreds of more "coincidences" that I have experienced over the course of my life. Sometimes we don't even notice them, they just happen. In Huckleberry Finn, Huck talks of the divine guidance of Providence, who is always there when he needs help the most.  Maybe, just maybe, Providence is real.  And although I believe in God and Huck believes in God, Providence isn't necessarily God.  And considering The Things They Carried, did you ever stop to ponder how O'Brien was in such a perfect position at the perfect time that he was never shot fatally, but instead only received minor wounds?  Or, in a negative way, you can consider how Kiowa was in the wrong place at the wrong time in the field where he was killed?  Kind of like during the movie Signs, when the main character's wife is in the wrong place at the wrong time, and a man driving drowsy falls asleep at the perfect moment, so that he runs off the road and kills her?  That can be followed up with how the car actually pinned her to the tree so that she was still alive for a while, allowing her to speak to her husband one more time?  On another point that will loop back around to the one I've been typing about, I get funny feelings. Yes, I know we all get funny feelings. This is a specific one I'd like to address. I call it the God effect, personally. I use it as a sign that I am on the right path to finding myself and to finding the truth. I could simply be listening to the right song, or coming up with an incredible thought about life (which will often end up in a Facebook post). The more amazing the thought, the more extreme the sensation is. And whether it's just a feeling or truly a message that I'm on to something here, I'm going to take these as signs. But the most intriguing thing to me, which I just experienced today, is this: Just as I sat down to type this post, I felt the most powerful feeling I have ever felt. Crazy, isn't it? So, "Are you the kind that sees signs, that sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky? Or, look at the question this way: Is it possible that there are no coincidences?"