signs or coincidences

In life do you believe in signs or signals from a higher power?

Many people believe when a Robin appears a loved one is near or if a white feather floats past you.

Now these are comforting beliefs and not causing anyone any harm.

However when making life decisions has anyone experienced weird coincidences?

I am in a current predicament, a real head and heart situation. I let other people influence me and get into my head with both. Made decisions which looking back were swayed by third party input and now I am back at the cross roads and need to make a decision one way or another. It's been draining to my mental health, I have become isolated and depressed. But on a sunny Tuesday drive to therapy I had a moment of clarity, I had a yes moment. I knew what I wanted to do. For me. A no apologies. Accept it or leave, to those third party whisperers. I finally had a smile on my face and knew the steps I needed to take.

I started looking into getting the ball rolling, rehearsing conversations in my head, picturing the life I was sure on.

Then the world through a curve ball, now the first sign was just minor. I was reading my book which is titled the characters name. Even purchasing the book nothing twigged, suddenly 100 pages in the name was family nickname for the path I was not taking. Suddenly I was spiraling, what does it mean? Am I making the wrong decision. I tried to refocus my thoughts to the previous clarity I felt.

The next day, turned on my work laptop and bam! The screensaver was a place I had longed to go and discussed with the path not taken.. it was the place I wanted to run to when things got too much and my depression was overtaking me a few weeks previous. Now I know the screensavers rotate but it wasn't just the country it was the specific place!!

Surely this was not all a coincidence..

Eventually putting this from my mind, my day continued and in the evening I went back to my book. Now not wincing at the name. Then whack. A reference to a movie the path not taken made me watch as they believed it was like our story. It is a 90's film and the stars are not the typical household names. It was a film I had never heard of previously yet it was in this book.

Are these signs of making a mistake, of quiet acceptance or just complete coincidences and I am totally overthinking this whole thing? Surely the sense of clarity, calm and even a smile mean more than a random screensaver?

What do you think?