So I came to my favourite Starbucks earlier today... around 7:45 am... And I ordered my hot chocolate and then the lady said that it was free since her till wasn't working!! I guess it was being reset or something... Bonus!!! Everybody else after me had to pay... I guess I was just at the right place at the right moment...
I wonder how many other times that happens but I'm not aware of it... I was driving here this morning and the main semi-highway I was on was merging with other semi-highway... so 2 lanes coming together with another 2 lanes. And one lane from each wants to get to the other side... Those on the left want to merge right... and those on the right want to merge left! Which makes it a bit tricky... A lot of shoulder checking and double checking... So I was merging right.... let's say from Lane 2 to Lane 3... and then someone else was merging Lane 4 to Lane 3, enroute to Lane 2. We were both merging into Lane 3 from opposite sides... at the same time! Luckily I caught them out of the corner of my eye and was able to slow down a bit and tuck in behind them... But again... a second or so difference and we might have crunched... right place at the right time...
I guess I just wonder how many times that happens in my day, and I'm not aware of it... not aware of serendipity or whatever you want to call it... at work in my life... Awareness is the key they say... But I find myself often going blindly through my day with very little awareness of what is going on around me... Driving around town in a cloud of other thoughts... not really present to what is before me... I wonder how much I miss out on...
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