Daily blog (audio): “Did you book this at the travel agents in Ashbourne?” [Not as unlikely as it seemed]

<p>“Did you book this at the travel agents in Ashbourne?” [Not as unlikely as it seemed]</p> <p><br></p> <p>We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at <a href="http://www.myrise.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myrise.co.uk</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>In 1997 my friend Rob came with me and my parents on our family holiday to Turkey.</p> <p>The main story coming out of that holiday was that we both had food poisoning and had to have an injection in our bottoms from a dodgy looking Turkish ‘doctor’.</p> <p>But another story was how we bumped into Becca Ward from the year below by the pool.</p> <p>Rob started going out with her when we got home funnily enough.</p> <p>But the conversation at the time was about what an amazing coincidence it was.</p> <p>However many thousand miles away and you bump into some from school.</p> <p>What are the chances?</p> <p>Well, that’s what everyone else said.</p> <p>I’ve always had a somewhat analytical mind.</p> <p>I worked backwards in my head to where we’d booked the holiday.</p> <p>The travel agents in Ashbourne.</p> <p>It was up in the window (remember when that’s how you found holidays?).</p> <p>I asked Becca if that’s how they found it.</p> <p>It, of course, was.</p> <p>Same dates, flights and hotel.</p> <p>I would imagine there were several families from the area there somewhere.</p> <p>Not the million to one coincidence it first appeared.</p> <p>But a pretty high chance we’d see someone we recognised.</p> <p>——————————————-</p> <p>The human brain isn’t always great and finding the real reasons behind things.</p> <p>If often misses the genuine connection and / or adds another one in.</p> <p>Sometimes it sees correlation as causation.</p> <p>We start Intermittent Fasting, keto, raspberry ketones, skinny coffee, a certain diet or any other approach to losing weight…………..</p> <p>Lose weight………..</p> <p>And miss the important fact that the method just put us in a calorie deficit.</p> <p>Or our friend seems to be able to “eat what they l