Interesting thing that happened recently for me:
I hadn't seen this guy that I'm friends with at work in like 6 months even though we texted/messaged every now and then kind of had like a brief "break" I guess you could call it where we were just kind of in a stand still. He, out of no where, messaged me when I was on vacation in Hong Kong asking when I was coming back because he was going to be out for 2 months for a surgery, so we kind of reconnected on that on a "supportive friend" way.
Anyway, he was supposed to be out of work, but I guess came back a lil early doing light work. I was walking around the campus (I work at a university) to drop off something to someone and near my building I see 3 guys chatting by a maintenance truck and see one of the guys who has this work friend's build and I think "wait, is that...no it can't be because he said he was gonna be out for 2 months...whatever" and I keep walking, even though I see that guy look in my direction briefly. Later, we were messaging about random stuff and he says that he was working near my building that week and wanted to drop by and say hi, but thought he might be bothering me at work.
The next week, I'm leaving a class I was taking on campus in the mid morning (a self defense class at the gym lol) with my duffel bag and all that, and as I'm heading out, I see he was heading in with another guy he was working with and was within ear shot. I was going to say hi, but thought I might get him in trouble with that guy since I wasn't sure what they were doing and I needed to go back to my office anyway.
Then, FINALLY, the literal next week after that, I'm walking back from a lunch I had with some staff at a restaurant and as I turn the corner to the backside lot entrance of my building doing my thing, I glance up to make sure I'm not walking into anyone and see that this guy is coming from the other direction facing me and sees me lol. We ended up standing there for the next 2hrs just talking about literally anything from the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, my union at work giving me trouble, haunted buildings full of mannequins, anime conventions, the TV show Yellowstone, romantic comedy tropes that piss us off, and anything else you can think of lol. It was really, random, to say the least, but I found it interesting because it was too "perfect" to run into each other after we each almost saw each other. As if, the universe or divine intervention happened of "ok you know what? Neither of you are going to be the one to initiate even when you're in the right place? Fine, then you're gonna have to be forced to talk to each other and neither of you are gonna get out of this" lol. I really do like him and the whole conversation felt like we were resetting our relationship/friendship as he had brought up a bunch of specific things we had discussed in the past (like casually wanting to go on a hike) like 6-8 months ago that I already BEEN forgotten/forgetting lol. Idk where this is going or could be going, but sometimes it feels like this is all happening out of my control, but has a specific path to take. Is it fate/meant to be? Only time will tell, but quite a coincidence if you ask me lol. Idk, just wanted to share lol.