Fate will only do so much

Two exam­ples stand out recent­ly.
The first hap­pened a few weeks back. I was with Ric­ahrd, we were hav­ing a drink @ the New­town. We were sit­ting out the back by the pool tables. A nice you boy came up and asked us if we want­ed to play a game (of pool). Rich and I said no, as we were leav­ing short­ly and that was the end of that. Lat­er on Rich tells me he thinks we should have played pool with him after all (bit late now).
The more recent exam­ple was while sit­ting in The Tea Cen­tre alone, wait­ing for some friends to arrive I notice a nice cute boy sit­ting at anoth­er table, also alone. After he fin­ish­es his tea he gets up, pays and leaves.
In both cas­es noth­ing hap­pened.
But in both cas­es some­thing could have hap­pened.
Fate in both cas­es set up the sit­u­a­tion, pre­sent­ed the oppor­tu­ni­ty. But beyond that its up to me to be brave and actu­al­ly do some­thing.
Wish fate would give me some fore warn­ing, some­thing sim­ple, I don’t want neon signs or any­thing. But while sit­ting in a cafe in New­town it would be real­ly nice to get an SMS that reads:

“The love of your life is about to sit down at the table next to you, why don’t you intro­duce your­self sweety and let me know how things turn out.” — Fate