My favourite word is serendipity. I love this word both for the way it rolls off my tongue and for its meaning...making an unexpected and desirable discovery by accident; it is chance, happenstance, fate, kismet, luck, good fortune, coincidence, karma, providence, destiny, tripping upon, fortuitousness, a random occurrence, an overall greater force influencing our lives. I love coming upon serendipitous experiences in my life - and I do come upon them frequently. As I am learning to live my life day to day, with a limited ability to truly plan out my future, my only hope is that destiny and fate will take care of me, and so these serendipitous moments serve as my confirmation that the world is in order.
So, that is the background on serendipity. After many years of considering an everlasting piece of art on my body, it is this word that I feel is destined to be permanently etched into my skin. And after two years of bugging Dave to design said body art, and having thrown in the idle threat on our vacation to Mexico last year that I was getting it done before my 37th birthday, with or without his design help, I finally have a draft of my new tattoo! Needless to say I'm very excited and can't wait to finalize the art so I can go brave the needle of the tattoo artist! I may even have to get my belly button re-pierced while I'm at it!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one—all red." Peter H. Reynolds
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"--- you don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings… serendipitously." John Barth, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
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Love, love, love it!
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