FATE?? COINCIDENCE?? OR AM I JUST OVERTHINKING IT??

From an overthinker’s point of view, I would have said this:

If only Emmanuel (my friend who makes shoes) had picked up his phone last week Thursday to deliver my mum’s black palm to me, Or if he didn’t decide to go home yesterday and meet with me during his stopover at Ibadan, to give me the palm slides on his way, Or if I didn’t decide to loosen my hair yesterday morning before meeting up with him, Or if I didn’t decide to be a good person by not delaying my friend at the meet-up point, or if I found the lipgloss on my own without mom’s help… maybe this wouldn’t have happened.

I decided to look at it from the perspective of a normal person and agree that nothing would have prevented it from happening and that ‘whatever will be, will be’. So this is the story:

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I traveled home from school last week Friday, meanwhile on Thursday evening, I called this friend of mine that makes footwear. He made one for my mom, and I wanted to save him the stress of delivery by taking it home with me, but the dude didn’t pick up, his number was unreachable the next day, so there wasn’t much I could do. We later talked on WhatsApp, and I agreed that we would use other means possible to get the slides to me.

Then, he called me yesterday morning that he is traveling home to Ekiti state. He was going to make a stop at Ibadan, before taking another bus to Ekiti state, his final destination. We chose a meet-up point and he told me he would inform me when he was close by. After doing some chores in the morning, I thought ‘well, I could loosen my hair before he calls’, but to my surprise, he texted me about 50 minutes later that he had gotten to Ibadan.

I started rushing everything I was doing because I didn’t want to delay him. I was trying to be considerate, as he still had a long way to go. I loosened my hair quickly, packed it, and put some presentable clothes on. I searched for my lip gloss in my mom’s bag so I can prevent my lips from drying due to the weather, but I couldn’t find it. I told her and she told me to bring her bag to the living room so she could check for me. Shockingly, she saw it immediately(All moms have this special talent😂😂) and handed it over to me.

Thennnnnn, I slipped on my way back to the room and fell so hard that I hit my head on the floor, I also sprained my leg and sustained a minor injury. For about 20 seconds, my head went blank and I couldn’t stand up. My mom rushed to the room in fear, as she heard the loud thump and maybe I even screamed or shouted, I can’t remember again, _{maybe because my head hit the ground😂😭}. I pretended I was okay so she wouldn’t start panicking, I stood up immediately after I saw her. Couldn’t pretend for long as I stood and realized what just hit me (or what I just hit - the ground😂😭), my head started swelling up and mom started with all the panicking(by scolding me).

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I rubbed some sort of relief cream on it and headed for where I was rushing to go. It was on the way I discovered that my friend was stuck in traffic and was even begging me to wait for about 20 minutes 😭😭😭.

So, you mean all the rushing was for nothing, and even the fall!!😭, but getting there early and waiting for minutes is something to be happy about, so yay, I guess🥲🥲

Well, I am much better now(my head is still swollen though, but gradually subsiding), just that my head is spinning like a carousel and it aches badly. I just want to rest my head and sleep for hours. I am grateful it wasn’t more than this though, I don’t even want to imagine the worst-case scenario.

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I am just wondering - would the fall have been averted if just one thing was done differently? Or that’s just how it was meant to happen, regardless of the tweaks in the pattern.

Fate?
Coincidence??
Or I'm simply overthinking it all???
What do you think?

Thanks for reading❤️