Why this word is great
KISMET — [Noun] A predetermined course of events, understood as fate or destiny. From Ottoman Turkish kısmet ("fate, destiny"), from Arabic qisma ("division, lot, portion"), a word whose roots frame destiny as a pre-allotted share. Unlike "coincidence," which proposes a random, meaningless convergence, or "choice," which champions conscious agency, kismet is the quiet recognition of a design already woven. It is the train you just missed, the stranger you meet twice in a faraway city, and the lost letter carried home by a single, decisive gust—each a quiet node in a predetermined pattern, a delivery from a courier you forgot you hired, revealing a plot in which you were always the most attentive character.