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🍀 Serendipity
The specific joy of finding something wonderful you weren't even looking for.
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Meet the Word
🔊 sair-en-DIP-ih-tee · noun
The knack for stumbling onto something wonderful while you were busy looking for something else entirely — or not looking for anything at all. It's not the same as plain luck. Winning a raffle is luck. Finding the exact book you'd given up searching for, on a shelf in a used bookstore you only ducked into to get out of the rain — that's serendipity. Luck plus timing plus the good sense to notice it when it lands in your lap.
Reading the definition is one thing. Wait until you see serendipity actually happening in a text message, a work email, and a dinner-table story — plus the one mistake almost everyone makes with this word.
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