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Here are two things that rarely ever happen:

1. Me spending more than five minutes per day on Twitter.
2. Twitter providing profound and meaningful value powerful enough to change someone’s perspective of life as they know it.

But the perfect storm happened recently when I discovered this story while killing a few minutes on Twitter before a client session.

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Apparently a married couple in China was going through old photos of themselves as teenagers, and they stumbled upon similar photos where each of them was standing in front of the same monument twenty years before.

Cool coincidence, right?

Here’s where it gets interesting. The husband photobombed his wife in the background of her picture without either of them realizing it. They took the exact same picture at the EXACT SAME MOMENT in time.

Your mind still isn’t blow yet?

The husband photobombed his wife’s picture YEARS before they ever met - the same location at the same single second in time in a country with over 1 BILLION people (before digital photography no less).

I’m not a mathematician or a quantum physicist, but I would guess the sheer probability of this has got to be around 0%. Yet it happened. And not only did it happen, but there’s documented proof.

The WHAT Isn’t As Important As the WHY

This story quickly went viral with many news organizations and websites sharing it, but as far as I can find, everyone has focused on WHAT happened and how amazing this coincidence is. I have yet to find a story about WHY this is important.

Realizing there are certain things that happen in life beyond our ability to comprehend got me thinking about the life lessons one could take from a seemingly impossible occurrence such as this.

I reached out to my readers & listeners to see how this story impacted them:

For me this is a great reminder that life will always guide us where we need to be. So why stress?! I've had a few instances where if I missed an opportunity that was meant to be, it appeared for me again later just like it did for them. True grace.

Julie F.

It seems like this story and the photo proves the old saying that there are no insignificant moments.

Robert G.

Amazing indeed... just what I needed cause I’m about to give up on ever finding a job. Lesson to be taken? Don’t ever give up!

Christine S.

No matter your religious or spiritual beliefs, it’s hard to question that these photos affirm something we cannot quite comprehend is most likely guiding us in some way, shape, or form.

And I too agree that there is no such thing as “insignificant moments,” only moments we choose to ignore.

Plus thanks largely in part to Christopher Rush, “never give up” is a mantra I live by every single day.

But I think there’s another lesson in this story that anyone can apply to their own lives that will lead to success, no matter the goal they are pursuing.

What this couple didn’t realize until twenty years later is that at this very moment they were writing ‘Day One’ of their origin story.

The Power of Perspective

While there’s no way to know what was actually going through the minds of these two young adults while taking these pictures, let