“Accidental good fortune.” I have to be honest this kind of thing happens all the time to me (well some of the time). For example I just stumbled across a thread here which mentioned a washing machine-and remembered that I had forgotten to dry my sheets and would have nothing to sleep on tonite.
My best example tho has to be the following. When I was at U of Florida an out-of-town friend needed a graduate catalogue (wanted to save on the postage I guess). Well a couple of days before I would drive back to my home town for the weekend and meet her I was walking through the parking lot with rain threatening, when I came upon, laying on a trunk of a car, a (you guessed it) graduate catalogue. Knowing it was about to rain I figured it would be better to grab it in pristine condition than leave it to get soaked for whoever left it there.
'tis rather strange to hold onto a serendpity, in a rather charged llife they are frequent. I’tis much charge in an electrical definition. It is much maligned, and it’s something that I hide from the “likeminds”. Its meaning is personal.
The story of how I met my wife is a big case of serendipity for me. A friend and I were planning to go to London one summer, but I had to abandon the idea because a certain firm I was working for had messed up and apparently couldn’t pay me on time.
After some macho posturing on their part (“Ah, yes, whatchagonna do? Sue us? With what money? Har har!”), I had to threaten to bring in the Trade Union. That scared them well and good, and my cheque arrived within three days.
I cashed my cheque just in time to revive the London plan with my friend, but a later date than we intended. This was important because in London I met the girl that I then married!
So, you see, if that firm paid me on time, or not at all, I would not have been in London at the right time, therefore not meeting her, and so on. If I hadn’t, I wouldn not have had another occasion, because she was completing her studies and thinking of moving back to her country of origin.
