What I want to add is what is future? 1 year later? 10 years later? or till the end? Before that it’s a whole life, whole future and it has ups and downs. Today you are happy; tomorrow you are sad. This year you have great achievement; next year you suddenly have a lot of competitors. As you said, many difficult things helped shape you and also many wonderful. They are a few stops towards your future. Whether you “change” them or not they are just some stops. They may be handled in Gods eyes, may be in your eyes; maybe how we “mess” them up is also handled in Gods eyes. But it’s not important to verify if it’s handled in Gods eyes or your eyes. They are our stops our experiences and we are happy to direct them to our direction whatever stops we encounter on the way.

I believe that a few people were able to “see” their future (what may happen a few years later) in their dreams or in their random thoughts however mostly didn’t pay attention. Because all were some tiny detail and when some tiny detail happen in the future, some may remind of what was in the dreams or in the thoughts.

So future is only in your past dreams. “Coincidence” or “fate” whatever we call it, as Laure said “I needed a passport yesterday …”