Coincidence or Fate

Afeera Shahjehan
Jul 27, 2017 · 3 min read

Elders say we shall not say anything bad at any time, not even wish for a bad situation in humor as you never know when is the time God and his angels say Amen. While I listened to it often, and it existed in my conscious mind, I never paid any attention as I take all the good things for granted and yet assume no evil would harm me.

Now getting to how I came to terms with the statement. 2 coincidences (both events occurring on the same day is the coincidence I am referring to, not the events themselves) are enough to prove to me the statement.

Most of you all use Facebook, and would be very familiar with the memories that come up on Facebook these days. So I woke up this morning, after my breakfast while I was waiting for the car to pick me up for work, I logged into my account and saw a 4-years old memory right on the top.

Those of you all who read my previous post would know how I started working in one, It was not at all that i strove hard for it and sent out my resumes to a hundred organizations. Anyways that is out of the context. This was just one coincidence.


Now coming to the second one.

2 months back, I went to the Khyber agency as part of my job. It was a visit to the training center where females of age 18–45 were under training in the trade of stitching and hand embroidery. There was a young mother to a baby of a year and a half, she was a trainee and her trainer told me she was determined to learn and then impart the skills to other women.

Upon further discussion with the trainee myself, I came to know that she had been stitching clothes for her baby but they were never perfect. She always wanted to be empowered and wanted to empower other women too. She shared her dream of opening up a vocational center for women where girls of all ages would come and learn skills of all sorts, beginning from her very own passion of stitching and hand embroidery.

You all might be wondering what a 2 month old story has to do with today’s coincidence. So here is what it has to do.

I came across this and nothing could better reflect the situation of this trainee turned trainer

I went to Khyber again today, where I was told some other girls and women are being trained in stitching and embroidery. Upon knocking the door (as is the custom in the Khyber agency) I was surprised to see the same girl from the previous training. She had been asked to look for a trainer with experience, but she proved experience was no less than passion; and so she was training 10 more girls right in her house.

She had wished for training other women and opportunity had come knocking her door, which she did not let go.

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