"It was meant to be" trope: reality based prompts
Do you really like the trope where people meet by fate - for inexplicable reasons or strange coincidence - and seem to be destined to be together (friendship or romance or whatever) but you're afraid to be too unrealistic?
Here are some fortunate events happened to people I know (me included) that were the start of a beautiful friendship or romance:
• They had already met online 4 years before, really liked the other person but then stopped texting for reasons they couldn't control.
When they meet again years after and exchange numbers, they can't believe they had already talked and even missed each other!
• They were in the same school, never noticed. They only found it out when they met years after.
• They lived in different cities, about 600km distance, but in the same nation: they met due to a bug in a dating app (for context: it was grinder) that misplaced them and pretened they were close.
They stated talking and liking each other and kept texting when they discovered their distance.
A friend (that was completely unaware of what was happening) invited one of them to a holiday in the city of the other person!
They decided to meet in person only out of curiosity, 4 years after they're in a long term relationship and planning to move in the same city.
• One person had to go abroad (and really wanted to do this trip) but the plane was cancelled due to a terroristic attack in the airport few days before. To avoid the sadness this person felt, a friend invited this person to an event.
In said event this person met another and now they're deeply in love and in a long term relationship.
• One of them borrowed the other work (it was available to everyone that needed it) and forgot to cancel the other name. The name stuck in this person mind but they never searched it online. A year after, they met in person and fell in love. Well, they broke up and it wasn't a fair relationship to be honest, but the coincidence was good and worth using in writing.
• Well this didn't end up well (nothing serious, they only didn't like each other) but they both had to participate to a regional project involving about 60 people but one of them couldn't due to an illness. One year after they meet at an event and discover they had several common friends due to the project.
