Has anything ever happened in your life that you didn’t expect at all and which, in a way, was responsible for a happy discovery?They call it chance, because it happens unannounced and unintentionally, but it has all the power it needs. to get our attention.
With that in mind, you might think serendipity is a better way to rank “hasard,” but these are two different topics. The first comes when we direct our steps to one destination or another, or when we are ready to find something that we did not yet know and that makes us feel good. However, the effects of chance can also be negative and work, let’s be prepared for its consequences or not.
- The term Serendipity (from Arabic sarandib or serendib) comes from the eastern tale “The Three Princes of Serendipi”.
- A Persian name for Sri Lanka (Ceylon).
- The concept was transmitted to some extent by Horace Walpole.
- Who adapted it into English in 1754.
The story is actually a short story in which three princes, endowed with great reasoning skills, are sent by their father to new lands, and during this journey they are accused of thieves by a man who had lost his camel. that only one person with the information revealed by the princes could have stolen from his pet.
At the end of the story, chance or chance saves them: the camel appears, proving that there was no robbery and that the three princes have the opportunity to explain the the most.
Now we know that serendipity is what Royston M. Roberts defined it as the “discovery that happens through a combination of accident and mind,” but it’s more interesting to know in practice what we’ve discussed so far. Discover the following examples of things we all know were discovered by chance:
The truth is that I have heard this word so many times in recent years that I could not help but talk about it, because it is also fully updated: it is a concept that has been received in an affectionate and grateful way, especially among the youngest, and has served as material for films of the same name, for books such as the poetry of David Tristeza , tattoos and even letters.
Serendipity arouses so much attraction precisely because it seems full of positive energy and it is as if something magical appeared in our lives to stay forever, it is like a kind of halo of timely happiness that was there only for you: I didn’t believe in chance until I got caught by one. Since then, I pay attention to the small details around me and seek the essence of what they want to convey to me.