In Baby Steps Via Blogging I mentioned my next blog post might be about serendipity. I
thought it would be a relatively simple subject. It’s reminded me of a lesson I’d
forgotten about writing…when you think a subject will be cut and dried, it’s
most often no where near, especially when any form of research may be involved.
Let’s start with a brief definition of two words. They will be the Yin and Yang
of my post.
Serendipity means a
"happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the
accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching
for it.
Zemblanity means making unhappy, unlucky and expected
discoveries occurring by design.
Wow. I was planning a very light-hearted post about
serendipity, and now all of a sudden, I have memories flooding back of a far
more zamblanitous nature. Let’s see where this takes us, shall we?
Serendipity is great. It’s like the universe bestows a small
gift, or series of gifts on you. Maybe you can think of it as your guardian angel,
spirit guide, little voice in your head, whatever, gives you a few nudges in
the right direction. For example, I hadn’t spoken to someone in well over a
year. I honestly hadn’t given it any thought either. One day, towards the end
of December, I was driving home and he popped into my head. I remember thinking
at the time how odd it was. Later that night, I was looking through my inbox on
Facebook at my archived mail. I was searching for a specific inbox and there he
was again (I wasn’t looking for his). I opened it up, and the last message I
had received from him was exactly one year ago to the day, whishing me a Happy
Hogmanay. I decided I would wish him a Happy Hogmanay and we’ve been talking again
ever since. I guess you could say we “rediscovered” each other; all through a
series of serendipitous events.
That brings us to zemblanity. The way I see it, if you’re
actually looking for something bad,
you’re very likely to find it. It’s much like praying to the Gods of Negativity
and boy do they like to answer
prayers! I could add several examples of this, but I won’t…mostly because the
examples are rather painful. Zemblanity is often unpleasant, for any parties
involved. It’s an ugly word that I’d rather not encounter often, but it is fun
to say, much like I think “Batista” is fun to say (yeah, I’m a weird word girl,
what can I say?).
Until next time then…
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