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literally 10 seconds after, a guy comes up to me, and asks me a question WITH THE EXACT SAME SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION. I was so taken aback for a second because I quite literally thought he read my mind or something.

“Savez-vous où je peux acheter les cigarettes?”  (typical french and their tabacs)

I’m so freaked out ( in a good way) by this idea of how the universe plants events around you exactly as you’re putting your energy into working towards something. Every single time I’ve planned to do something, go somewhere... I just always end up meeting people or having interactions that affirm them.

Earlier this semester when I was planning on studying in France to improve my French, my smoke detector in my apartment ran out of battery and literally would not stop beeping for 2 days straight. I put in a work order at the office downstairs and someone eventually came to fix it. As the guy came into my room and was doing his thing with the detector, we made small talk and just chatted a bit. and then, out of NOWHERE, he just started talked to me in French. Come to find out, he was born there, knows the language fluently, and told me being in a city where a language is the dominant one is the best way to learn. 

3 months later, here I am writing this post in Paris.