15 Times Fate Stepped In at the Perfect Moment

Sometimes achieving a goal requires considerable hard work, while other times success must come easily. Yet, in both scenarios, it’s impossible to realize the role of luck as a key factor in the outcome. This collection will show you their experiences that perfectly illustrate this idea.

Story 1:

My wife and I were returning from a party at 2 AM when our car di:ed in a remote area. There were no mobiles then, so we waited. An hour later, a college student passed by and drove us to town. We offered money but he said, “Happy to help.”

Years later, my wife called in tears. With a shaky voice she told me to open the news. Turns out that student was actually a 35-year-old man who had robbed over 30 people in forests and abandoned areas, targeting drivers late at night.

I had chills when I saw that he had been wanted by the police in several states. His methods were chillingly clever—he’d either pretend to be a lost hiker to hitch a ride or pick people up in his own car. After gaining their trust, he’d rob them of everything and leave them stranded in the middle of nowhere.

To this day, we don’t know why he didn’t rob us. Maybe it was because there were two of us, or perhaps because I was tall and muscular, which might have intimidated him. Whatever the reason, we were incredibly lucky to have walked away unharmed.

Story 2:

My friend meets this girl in a bar, which he never does, and decides to see her again. Well, the date goes well and he gets lucky. They are cuddling afterward, and she rests her head on his chest and notices an irregular heartbeat.

This girl is a nurse and demands he go to the emergency room immediately. They made him have a major heart surgery right then and said in a day he would have died. He didn’t even know anything was up.” OuchLOLcom / Reddit

Story 3:

I was about to board a connecting flight when I realized I left my passport in the airport bathroom. Panic set in immediately. I sprinted back, heart racing. It was gone.

I alerted security, filed a report, but the outlook was grim. As I sat in despair near the lost & found desk, an elderly janitor approached and said, “You dropped this, right?” and handed me the passport. He found it in a trash can while cleaning and said he had a feeling it wasn’t garbage.

I made my flight. Still wonder how many tiny miracles happen because someone simply cares.
© Anonymous / Airport Miracle

Story 4:

I was in a foreign airport, running late, and just missed the damn train — like the sliding door slammed on my foot. Had to wait 10 minutes for the next one. Got chatting to a girl. Now married for 6 years. © hippocratical / Reddit

Story 5:

Today, when I went outside, I immediately noticed an old lady who was calling for someone. I approached her, “Hello, have you lost someone?” “Yes, my dog. Her name is Lina.” Well, how could I not help?

The 2 of us walked around the area, but couldn’t find the dog. I offered to print and place posters. We went upstairs, she gave me a photo of the dog and I went to the copy center. I put up posters on every doorway, and then I heard barking behind me — that’s when Lina was found, I guess she saw the poster that she was lost. © Not everyone will understand / VK

Story 6:

During a big university exam, I got stuck on a math question I thought I had prepared for. I was sure I’d fail. While nervously fiddling with my calculator, I noticed a small slip of paper stuck inside the case.

It was my own handwritten formula sheet from two semesters ago — a perfect reference for that exact type of problem. I had forgotten I ever made it.

I finished the problem in time, passed the exam, and kept that paper taped above my desk for years.
© FormulaFortune / Reddit

Story 7:

Found £160 in cash on a river bank, while I was discussing how I was too broke to afford a festival ticket with my girlfriend at the time. No idea how it got on the river bank, far away from the town. River bank is the wrong kind of bank to deposit your cash. © Turbulent-T / Reddit

Story 8:

I went on holiday with my husband to a faraway land, checked into a small but very nice hotel overlooking the ocean. The first night we met a nice older couple at the hotel. Toward the end of our conversation, we found out that they were the owners of the place and offered us to move into the suite that was available.

We thought there was a trick, and it’s not for free, but the evening before departure, when the owners came to say goodbye to us, they said that we reminded them very much of themselves in their youth. I came back from holiday pregnant, so I don’t even know when we’ll be able to visit them again. © Overheard / VK

Story 9:

When I was a kid, my dad lost his job right before Christmas. Things were rough—we didn’t even have money for a tree. I remember my parents whispering in the kitchen, trying to stay hopeful.

On Christmas Eve, someone knocked. No one was there — just a basket full of wrapped gifts and a card that read, “From a friend who remembers tough Decembers.”

To this day, we have no idea who left it. But every year, we pay it forward to someone else.
© HolidayHeart / Reddit

Story 10:

My husband and I were on a plane, and we were given the aisle seats in the middle part of 5 seats, and also in different rows. Well, it’s a 4-hour flight, we’ll get by without each other. Then a guy from my husband’s row comes up to me and asks to change seats. I agree, we sit separately anyway, what’s the difference.

So, my husband is on the outer left side now, and I am on the right side. There are 3 empty seats between us. And you know what? Nobody was seated in them! So, we raised the armrests and lied down there, just the two of us! © Pushkanaizzer / Pikabu

Story 11:

My mother gave me a very nice necklace. One morning I went to scratch my neck and I didn’t feel it. I guess I didn’t put the latch on properly, and it fell off, so I got super bummed out because it was really nice.

A few hours later, I found it in my shoe. It fell down my shirt, down my pants (with a belt), and into my left shoe, which had been tightly laced. © Rough_Cut / Reddit

Story 12:

I took a different route home one night, something I never do. I walked past a park and heard what sounded like a faint meow. I stopped and searched and found a tiny kitten stuck in a drain, shivering.

I called a rescue group and stayed with her until they arrived. They told me a storm was coming that night — she wouldn’t have survived.

Story 13:

Applied for a job that was way out of my league and the pay was more than twice what I was making at the time, and included pension, full benefits, all that good stuff. I showed up quite early for the interview, and had some time to kill, so I sat in the lobby reading some industry magazines.

One article was about the top 10 threats to this industry, which I made a point of reading and soaking in as much as I could. Eventually I get called into the interview, and everything is going okay for the most part. This industry and role are both new to me, and I think it may have shown during the interview as a weak spot, but then I get asked, “What do you see as potential issues within our industry/business.”

I was so excited I almost jumped out of the seat, and went off in great detail about everything I had just learned. The interviewers were very impressed, and little did they know that had I been asked that exact same question just 30 minutes earlier, I would have had nearly nothing to say. I got the job. © TheDude77 / Reddit

Story 14:

I called a rescue group and stayed with her until they arrived. They told me a storm was coming that night — she wouldn’t have survived.

Story 15:

Many years ago I was totally broke, even working 2 jobs. I would eat macaroni and hotdogs or tuna every night. I couldn’t afford to put gas in my car, so I’d walk to my job.

One evening, while walking home in the dark around 11:00 p.m, I saw a $50 bill on the snow. After picking it up, my immediate thought was I could buy groceries, but there was thought that another person might be as broke as me who lost the money. So I stood in a field for an hour freezing thinking the person who lost the money would come looking for it, but they never did.

I can’t begin to tell you how much finding the $50 impacted me. Not only could I eat but put gas in my car. It seemed my life changed at that moment, which it did. It changed my thoughts, I had chances to succeed, which happened. © DICHOTOMY-REDDIT / Reddit