I think you can't seperate common sense and LoA. You think something that's logical for you and it happens. And it confirms your expectation, so you are even more sure now that it is the truth. But think about children. They don't have common sense. They ask the strangest question and believe everything you tell them. So it's nothing inherent, but we have learned it. And everything we have learned was influenced by the vibration of others or one experience, you gave thought to, wondered if it would happen again and so on.

When people talk about you create your own reality, the question is: Who is you? Which part of you? Abraham talks about contrast. If we could manage to be always happy and would expect the good to come, there would no longer be contrast. So there has to be some part of us who provides the contrast for us. So maybe there is an element we don't have control over, but we have full control over how we react to it and therefore how it turns out in the end.

I think the guy standing you up was your creation. Think about it, you are interacting with different people differently. There are people you like and there are people you don't like and you probably would act in ways towards the one you don't like that would never come to mind when it comes to interacting with people you do like. Now is the question why do you like some people more than others? Maybe you catch their vibe and you can feel that they have negative thoughts towards you. And you act unknowingly in harmony with their vibration. And they think: "I KNEW it, she is that kind of girl...". But in reality, you aren't always that kind of girl. You just match their vibration.