Fate or coincidence?

I was a contestant on Deal or No Deal back in 2005/2006. I am a modern languages teacher but at the time was taking a sabbatical and working as a bingo caller. To chose my boxes I decided to put 22 small balls in a bag and draw the balls out. I decided before hand that I wanted to leave boxes 22 and 5 to the end of the game,since they represent my birthday. Since those balls were already in the bag as I began to draw the numbers I left them in and just decided that WHEN they came out I would ignore them. When I got to the last two balls in the bag..they were..22 and 5. So, rather than DRAW them.. I just wrote 22 then 5 on my paper ..the way I would normally write my birthday. This lead me to get rid of box 22 first..containing £35000... then swapping the box I initially chose-box 21(containing just £100)-for box 5 to get £3000. At the time I felt 22 represented my luck and £3000 my life path..so I guess I took my life path! :)