serendipity - noun - pleasant occurrence happening by accident
Serendipity has always been one of my favorite words in the English language. Other than perhaps being challenging to spell (and we can leave that to spellcheck), there is absolutely nothing repugnant about it. It owns a positive connotation and denotation in addition to a musicality of pronunciation. If I had had a second daughter, her name would have been Serendipity. Although I did not have the opportunity to beget another child, I created a fictitious one, Serendipity, or Sera, the young female protagonist in my middle-grade chapter book, Serendipity and the Dream Catcher. Naturally, Sera experiences much in the way of serendipity, and ironically, so did I during the writing of the book.
What is most favorable is that the term's meaning embraces optimism. It is a loosely planned albeit successful surprise party encased in five syllables that suggests that something marvelous can come from out of the blue magically. Serendipity can refer to something as commonplace as the sun breaking through the clouds on a day that the weather forecast promised pronounced rain. Or it could be something as preternatural as a writer being in a quandary as to how to close a book and then minutes later, watching the perfect ending play out in real time before her. (Yes, as alluded to, this did happen to me when penning the aforementioned book. Whether it was serendipity or a blatant gift from God, I'll leave that for you to decide.)
Serendipity flirts with hope as well. It leaves us with possibilities that anything positive can happen at any time.
May you have a serendipitous Tuesday!
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