By: Usha krishnan
Life Coach ,NLP Coach and Educationist
New Delhi
A Bouquet Full of Serendipitous Moments
Life is wrapped with pleasant surprises. These pleasant surprises are no doubt making the path ahead bejewelled with sweet memories. We sobriquet them with such a lovely phrase, the serendipitous moments. They remind us of how beautifully life is being strung with some precious pearls of memorable moments which are unexpectedly drawn in front of us when we are in the pursuit of completion of any other chores in our daily routines.
Serendipity means the occurrence and developments of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
In other words, it is the fact of finding interesting or valuable things by chance. The origin of this beautiful word with its meaning as "good luck in finding valuable things unintentionally' is with reference to the fairy tale characters who are always making discoveries through chance.
Such pleasant discoveries and the element of impromptu in them add excitement to our life and encourage us to see life through rose tinted glasses. They no doubt make us to enjoy life as if taking a cosy ride on the dandelions.
Let me take a sojourn through them once again. A journey back through some wonderful moments of such chanced occurrences.
One such moment which was kept for me was on a Monday morning of coming back to my workplace after a brief period of an official travel. I thought of organizing my desk and Viola!! There was this sweet note from someone with a message that said, "We missed you a lot", stuck on my table!! I was on rosy wings for a while.
Another remarkable occasion of such glittering moments of serendipity occurred during the Christmas celebrations in my work place. It was in one of those frosty mornings in December when we were playing the Secret Santa Game along with our colleagues.
There was an awe of mystery in the air. There was that whispering of uncertainty and the thrill of taking wild guesses all around. I could see the glee in the eyes of those who received gifts from their Secret Santas. At the same time, their joy in its peek was very much obvious all around as various expressions of excitement. Those who received thoughtful gifts from people other than their Secret Santas were on cloud nine. That was the real Serendipity for everyone, an array of wondrous moments of receiving a myriad of special thoughts in gift wrappers.
I was also fortunate enough to experience such encounters with serendipity during this thrilling week of sweet surprises and throbbing surprises, when those lovely gifts so thoughtfully chosen for me by my Secret Santa and some other special gifts from my dear friends were waiting for me under the Christmas tree.
A pink porcelain cup with my name engraved and with a message that ' You have a broad, delightful and an honest smile. Be the way you are because you are the best out there.' was one among them which made me so happy.
There are many such serendipitous occasions we pass through in our life. On a pleasant morning at home, on a fine day in the workplace, while browsing over for an information, while travelling, while standing in a queue in a Shopping Mall, on an evening stroll or even when we are reorganizing our wardrobe we do experience them, don’t we?
Mind has its own place where some precious keepsakes are treasured, and let all those serendipitous moments be cherished there forever by us.
One word for you all. While going through the jottings of mine, if you too start ruminating over the pearls of such pleasant surprises in your life, that would be a serendipitous moment for me as well.😊😊
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