"Just-so-Happens" and Coincidences

I don't believe in "just-so-happens" or coincidences.  I think that everything, every person, every situation comes in due time, on its appropriate schedule and timeline. It all comes with its specific reasons and purposes. 

It arrives upon when it arrives and stays for however long, however short it is meant to stay. 

It embellishes our lives in its on unique ways.  Adding essence, depth, substance and vitality in the crevices of areas within our lives we didn't even know existed. 

It knocks us down, tears us apart.  We are bruised, wounded, bleeding.  

Look at the snow on the trees.  On top of the branches, on top of you, it is harsh, bitter, cold.  There is no sun for warmth.  But can you see how the snow covering the branch is so magnificently beautiful during this short period?  Can you see how you are being nurtured with the snow on top of you from the frigid cold wind?   As the snow remains on you, and once the sun appears, melting it away, you drink in all the moisture that you so desperately needed?  It quenches the dire thirst from the extreme dryness of the winter? 

It enters deeply into the core, giving you vitality to begin the process of budding and sprouting new leaves and blooms.  

Looking back, without the challenging and difficult snow and winter, would the tree become as vibrant and full of life as it enters into its next season of vitality? For us, without all of this, these, them....would we be who we are now? 

Although it comes in due time...time is an interesting thing.  We all assume we have time.  More time.  
Many of us, especially those who are younger, assumes we have more time.  It can wait until tomorrow, next month or next year.  And no qualm on that....isn't there a saying: "Every night we go to bed, without any assurance of being alive the next morning, but still we set the alarm to wake up....That's call hope!"
Yet within the same train of thought....who and what guarantees that we will have tomorrow, next month, next year?  Who and what guarantees that we will have more time? 

And I think Marcus Aurelius says it so beautifully: 

Though you were to live three thousand, or if you please, thirty thousand of years, yet remember that no man can lose any other life than that which he now lives, neither is he possessed of any other than that which he loses. Whence it follows that the longest life, as we commonly speak, and the shortest, come all to the same reckoning.  For the present is of the same duration everywhere.  Everybody's loss, therefore, is of the same bigness, and reaches no further than to a point of time, for no man is capable of losing either the past or the future; for how can one be deprived of what he has not? 
This to me means that at current, this moment, I don't have the past, nor do I have the future.  All I possess is simply and only now.  
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