2006-07-13 10:28:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
If I believe in anything I do believe in the romantic nature of a serendipitous encounter, and how elegantly you put it. I take this to be purely by chance but there is beauty in what appears to be purely random.
If I have ever experienced serendipity, it hit me hardest the last time I left Nashville for good. I had a huge fight with my roommates in which they promptly moved out. I spited them for years and never spoke to them since. I had a good friendship with at least one of them and grew to sadly miss her. Two days before ending my six and a half year journey in Nashville I ran into her again in a seedy bar on the west end. I was to fly to California two days later. The surprise on her face, coupled with her boisterous laughter, left me dumbfounded in my intoxicated state. We awkwardly hugged, and forgiveness was present in our silence of the past. At least I was filled with forgiveness and contrition. I thought how lucky I must be to seal the end of life in Nashville, TN with such a serendipitous encounter. How fortunate I am to amend a broken friendship by such a fluke encounter with an old sister for whom I felt profound sadness and love. Is that serendipity? It was certainly quixotic.
2006-07-13 16:05:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
"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—now do you understand serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for, comes under this description) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table."[
Serendip is the old Arabic name for Sri Lanka.
2006-07-13 11:39:44 · answer #2 · answered by Blah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Confirmatory.
2006-07-13 10:31:08 · answer #3 · answered by manofadvntr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me see - the belief that something, although false, has enough power in the belief itself to cause something good, although unintended, to happen. Wow.
No. Okay, maybe.
2006-07-13 14:27:17 · answer #4 · answered by buzzzard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
last friday en route to the laque,
a quick turn my taxi did maque.
drove under a qow,
we made it somehow...
and got a milqshake with our steak.
2006-07-13 13:36:08 · answer #5 · answered by patzky99 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋