Serendipity is the act of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
It is also said of the results of those actual discoveries.
I have been told a couple of times that certain things were serendipitous by co workers while I was on the faculty of the local technical college. However, my personal view is serendipity takes a lot more favorable results than anything that ever happened there for me personally.
Today is Serendipity Day. It is held each August 18 in an effort to have people seek and appreicate the unexpected good things available upon the Earth.
The development of of events by chance is what it's all about. If you don't get out there and mix then they are less likely.
Nothing is wrong with a little unexpected good fortune.
Those intriguing chance discoveries are the stuff of joy and make the world go round. It is said that Horace Walpole, an English author, founded it for the first time in 1754 as the results of reading the Persian novel "The Three Princes of Serendip".
Opportune momentious occasions are there, they just need to be had by some fortunate person. It is said that you cannot pursue these opportunities if you live your life in the "safe zone".
So trust that stranger, get out and mix with your fellows, and live in the moment more and you will enjoy more of that which is serendipity.