I think a lot of people like to think there's destiny or fate - it helps you make sense of what is otherwise a random series of incidences, and nobody really likes being that ill-at-ease.
I also think that people enjoy spotting patterns, even if those patterns don't actually exist - if you think of somebody, and that person then phones you, you like to think there's some reason behind it. What it probably means is either that you guys phone each other on some sort of basis - so you feel like it's been a while since you've caught up, in which case it's not impossible that they felt that too, or what often happens, where you notice and remember the times it happens right, but forget those times where you think of somebody and have no contact from them at all because why would that stick in your brain?
People can make themselves believe a lot without realising.
I'd like to think there's some magic in the world, but I also quite enjoy the idea that everything is pretty much random. There's a lot of free-willed fun in that too.
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