Have you ever thought about this?

[Courtney:)]

I finally found the original conversation my boyfriend and I had when we first met! Well, it's the second half of it, considering I had deleted the original post xD
You can totally tell how annoyed of him I was...and how creeped out, too! Haha, I'm surprised I accepted his friend request xD

But anyway. It's crazy to think about how if this small conversation didn't happen, I wouldn't be in this relationship right now. If he didn't decide to be random and weird by commenting on a post saying he knew where I lived and was going to stalk me...this would've never EVER happened.

Do any of you think about that? Anything in particular that makes you go, "Wow, I'm so glad that happened!" because there's a possibility it could've never happened?

[angelvee]

I know what you mean. I met my SO online, and I believe it started when I randomly said happy birthday to him on some forum just to be nice after I saw him around. Later, he must have remembered me, because when he needed someone to talk to he saw me on his friend's profile and decided to send me a message. I'm so glad he did.

[HeartInTexas]

Definitely! I mean, I met my SO on an online game whose community is full of mostly 10yr old boys and jerks. It was a game I would have never picked up if it wasn't for a friend of mine. When I think back to my friend introducing me to that game, it's like...If he had never decided to play the game, he would have never told me about it, and I would have never played! That's probably the second time he's told me about a game that I ended up meeting a great person in.

Furthermore, what are the chances of me bumping into my SO-to-be in a room (the game has a "waiting room" to gather players before you play) that I picked at random? We actually didn't even date until about 3yrs later after being friends and seeing other people.

Things like this are quite interesting and fun to think about!

[one-more-reason]

I think about this all the time! with me and my SO, it was a huge list of things that we didn't want or expect to happen that brought us together. I met him while studying abroad, and originally I wanted to study in Scotland. I ended up in Tasmania because of the simple fact that I was ahead on my psychology credits and behind on my art credits and my university happened to be partnered with an art school in Tasmania. my SO is from Tasmania, but wanted to go to school on the mainland but for some reason the school up there wouldn't accept his transfer credits so he ended up staying closer to home. I picked the dorm I lived in totally at random, and he picked another dorm altogether but the other dorm happened to run out of space.

...all of these things happen and he and I ended up in the same dorm, on the same floor, in rooms 310 and 311. what are the chances of that? it's just like... if ANY of those things had been different, we never would have met. life is crazy.

[Brieasaurus]

Yes! We met online and I am so thankful that I decided to get onto that website on that particular night and hang around the chat rooms. I had actually been thinking about not even going on there anymore. It then turns out that one of my closest friends on there had known my SO before and was trying to make things work between them! Good thing I snatched him away from her haha.

[Shepard-Fowkes]

Definitely! I posted on a website that I had never posted on before and have never posted on since and he managed to read that thread even though he never reads them. Well, it was a week between my post and his, but still :P. And I rarely PM people, but he was just so friendly and I needed a friend so badly then that I PMed him and added him on Facebook, which is something else I never do. What a lucky time for both of us to act out of character!

[dukes2011]

My SO and I were actually talking about this a few nights ago. We started out CD and met in college freshman year because he was good friends with my roommate. We weren't attracted to each other at all, but nearly a year later he randomly said hi to me on AIM (Wow that makes me feel slightly old!) and we started talking. Turns out we had signed up to live in the same dorm for sophomore year and we had no idea. We just kept running into each other all the time and then hanging out on a regular basis. We just clicked so well and the rest is history! We always wonder if we would have reconnected without his random message, but I'm so happy that we did!

[Jango]

I think everyone thinks about this, and how different things could have turned out.
I met my GF on the PS3, on a game where online was dead, and I was sitting in a lobby, on my own, at 4am, and I had my headset on for some reason.
Then she joined with her friend and they were talking, but I didn't make an effort to say a single word. Luckily before the game was almost over I started to sing part of a song, she heard me and started to talk to me.

[pretty ll vacant]

YES! Haha, my bf and I talk about this a lot randomly. Similar to your exact situation actually, my bf was the one that randomly hit me up and I generally never respond to PM's, specially people I don't know. Let me tell you I am so glad I responded to that PM because it has shaped the rest of my life and now I can't imagine how my life would be if he wasn't in it.

It's really still kind of overwhelming to believe it all started with one silly little message. I wish I still had our very first converstaion, but I don't because it was on a chat app. I vaguely remember what we talked about, once we traded gtalk names ALL of those convos got saved. Yay! Haha, I read through them randomly from time to time and it makes me love him even more.

[Nbaby]

If i didnt randomly add him we would have never met. And its rare for me to add people i met in a game so i am happy that i did that .

[snow_girl]

We met at a christmas party and he wasn't planning on going since he was hung over from the previous night but last minute decided he'd go...lucky me!

[rina]

We met in an MMORPG called Lineage 2 (a game i didnt even wanna play) through a mutual friend called Erik and we've been best friends for 5 years+

SO says (3:54 PM): without sonic i think i wouldn't have met erik >,<
Me says (3:54 PM): o rly? must thank sonic! also must thank your mom for having you and your dad for paying internetz! and thank your king for taking care of belgium! and God for making humans! and the aliens for not invading earth, and causing the internetz to not work anymore!
SO says (3:55 PM): T_T make sure u don't forget anyone

So yeah i think we think that we think about it quite often

[Katelyn313]

I think about this quite often, actually. Dylan and I met on Twitter through a hash tag. Meaning we were both watching the same show at the same time and hash tagged the same thing and roughly the same time. I always think how lucky I am to have been watching that show that night. And happy he was interested in what others were saying about it. We were friends for over a year, exchanging a few tweets but nothing serious. He actually sort of offended me with one of his casual tweets! I'm so glad we stayed friends and started this, because he's truly the best thing to ever happen to me <3

[efish1042]

Im so glad we both vacations at Disney at the same time

[lyonsgirl]

Had I graduated from college in May 2010 like I was "supposed" to, I wouldn't have met his brother. Had I graduated in December 2012, I don't think we would have sent those 4,000 text messages over winter break. I'm so glad I decided to take a full victory lap instead of a half lap... (what I like to call my 5th year)