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Serendipity
The making of happy and unexpected discoveries by
accident or when looking for something else; such a discovery.
Oxford Dictionary
The long life lived by most humans with multitudinous events and interactions
with people and things provides for many opportunities for the making of serendipitous discoveries. Most people are so emotionally
overloaded or trapped in repetitive behaviour patterns that serendipity goes unnoticed or, if seen, is so astounding as to be put down to
some divine blessing or intervention or is being dismissed as luck. Serendipity is often claimed to be a prayer answered, good luck, God’s
will, or ‘existence providing’, while blindly ignoring the other times when prayers go unanswered, ‘life’s a bitch’, it was bad
luck or ‘someone else’s fault’, or it was ‘good’ to suffer as a ‘growth’ experience.
On the wide and wondrous path to actual freedom serendipitous discoveries are a constant
occurrence. With the ever-running of the question ‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive?’ one is continuously
presented with opportunities to discover, investigate and understand what particular feeling, resulting from an event or interaction, is
preventing you from being happy now. Yesterday’s happiness or some future – imaginary – happiness or harmlessness has absolutely no
relevance right now, this only moment you can experience being alive. If you miss the opportunity this time around, this moment, you have
another chance immediately, this moment, for one’s life is perpetually experienced in this moment only. And serendipity will always
present you with the next issue, belief, instinctual pattern, mood or emotion, etc. – right on cue.
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