Serendipity

The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole 28 January 1754, in a letter he wrote to his friend, Horace Mann, the English resident in Florence.

"I once read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right."

I myself have been in a fortunate situation of experiencing some form of serendipity and I have to say, that when it happens (and always when you least expect it to) the whole universe seems to shift in one direction, and for an instant you see everything as it was meant to be seen.

Like missing out on a late night movie and realizing the very next day that one of the people that went along was a stranger that you've been looking for ever since you first saw her at a dinner party - and never got her name.

Or not talking to a few people at all for a few months and then all of sudden in one single day, they all call you at once.

And in that glimmer of serendipity, you finally know how the universe works and why all things happen for a reason.

May you have your own serendipities...all of you.