Serendipidous

Serendipity, is fortunate fate, good things happening by "accident," or that are unplanned. Serendipity is some magical positive force that makes good things happen in one's life. You meet your soul mate, you land the most awesome job, without trying or really making an effort to find it. It just lands in your lap.

The belief in serendipity is a belief that requires letting go and letting life happen, because what's meant to be will be. There are many stories going way back that believe in predestined lives. Take the classic Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, he experienced the complete opposite of Serendipity with a complete and utterly tragic and miserable fate. So the question I propose is this, is fate real? Are our lives already planned out? Or did the Greek and movie makers just create the concept for dramatic appeal? Modern Christian faith would say no, there is not such thing as fate because that goes against the belief in free will.

I have watched movies such as "Serendipity" and they are so magical and wonderful and happy-go-lucky. You can't help but want a story just like that, but how likely are you to meet your soul mate shopping is a department story buying a pair of gloves? It makes it seem so easy, but in reality the movie is very deceiving. Yes, they do meet by chance, but they do not re-meet by chance. If John Cusak's character didn't go looking in EVERY bookstore imaginable for the book with Sara's number his fiance would not have seen him do that and bought him the book. Yes, the fact that she happened to buy the exact book with Sara's number in it is a little weird, but finding each other again did take some work. What if Sara never came back to New York? She did something too to make love happen, also.

Okay, so I know I'm dragging you along with this story and it might be hard to understand if you've never seen the movie. What I'm trying to say is... I'm going to have to side with the Christians on this one. I think I believe in free will more so than fate. Nothing I've ever obtain or accomplished ever happened without a little hard work.

Some people sit in there homes all alone hoping and praying that fate will bring them together with their one true love, yet they don't go on dates, or go out anywhere, they just wait.

"No, this waiting is not for you. Somehow you escape all this waiting and staying." Dr. Seuss, Oh! The Places You'll Go. Love may happen by chance, but I'm not going to leave it to the Gods, or fate. I'm going to go after it head first. I'm going to find it and I'm going to do that by kissing a lot of frogs.

I used to want this magical, amazing, fairytale of a story. Now I think I'm okay with just a normal average story. I don't think it matters how I get there as long as I just find what I'm looking for. It might take searching high and low, but somehow I will get there. So Serendipity, I'm taking fate into my own hands, and I will succeed...