Serendipity

My new favorite word is "serendipity" - According to google and wikipedia (because that's where everyone should get their information from) the meaning of the serendipity is: a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it.

In the movie Serendipity John Cusak searches for Kate Beckinsale meet each other, only to part ways. He writes his name and number on a $5 bill and she writes her name and number on the inside cover of a book. According to Beckinsale, if they are mean to be, she will find the $5 with his information and he will find the book with hers. Something to that extent and the rest of the movie they try to find each other.

Is serendipty for real? Does it happen to everyone?

I will admit that I wished that something like that would happen to me, what girl wouldn't want that right? Imagine walking into a starbucks only wanting coffee but having a chance encounter with your soulmate. But those things only happen in movies right? As shitty as my luck is - the closeset to serendipty I get is walking into a crowded room and running into an ex and a guy I screwed over. How is that even serendipity you ask?

Well, it's not, it's the quite opposite - that's how shitty my luck is when it comes to the matters of the heart.

I remember posing this question to an ex-flame. I asked him if he believed in fate/destiny. And he said no. Like there was no thinking required, just a flat out "No". He said he believed in practicality instead.

Okay, Mr. Practicality - I never said I DIDN'T believe in being practical. But can't you beleive in both? I do think a person can be practical yet observe the right to believe in a greater power such as fate and or destiny.

That should have been my clue to end it with Mr. Practicality, yet it continued on for a few more months. You know the guy who couldn't wait to relieve himself and just did his business on the street?

Sigh. Maybe that's why I am still single - because I am still waiting for serendipity to happen to me.

Afterall if fate has something else in store, I guess I'll just sit and watch while destiny takes full control of my life :-)