What Are the Odds A Story About Chance Timing and Unexpected Moments

Last week I was at Virgin Beach on the east coast of Bali, one of my favorite places to escape for a few days. I was there with friends visiting from Sweden.

If you have been there, you will know it is absolutely stunning. It is also a little unpredictable. The waves can be powerful and the undercurrent makes getting in and out of the water more challenging than it first appears.

We experienced that very quickly.

One of my friends was knocked over by a wave and hurt her back as well as her pride. Another friend rushed in to help and in the process lost his very expensive prescription transition sunglasses because he forgot to take them off before going into the water.

We managed to get everyone safely back onto the beach, but the sunglasses were gone.

For the next fifteen minutes we did what most people would do. We stood there scanning the shoreline, watching every wave and hoping the glasses would somehow reappear. It was that small window where you still believe it might happen.

But as time passed, that hope faded. It felt like it would take something extraordinary for the ocean to return them.

Eventually we accepted they were gone and settled back into enjoying the day.

Then about an hour later something unexpected happened.

Out of nowhere my friend jumped up from her sun lounge and sprinted toward the water shouting that the glasses were back.

And somehow they were.

Right there in front of us, resting on the sand in almost the exact spot where they had been lost.

It made us all pause.

What were the chances they would come back like that at that exact moment when one of us happened to be looking and able to grab them before the next wave pulled them away again?

Sometimes life has a way of surprising us when we least expect it.

Moments that feel lost have a strange way of returning.

I would love to hear your story. What is your best what are the odds moment?