SERENDIPITY

Yesterday, October 7th was the anniversary of The Old Girl's wedding of many years ago.

By a strange twist of fate and in no way planned, the same date is the anniversary of The Old Girl's divorce 14 years later. How strange is that?

In this Guardian article Paul Broks investigates the supernatural side of coincidences:

ARE COINCIDENCES REAL?

"The rationalist in me knows that coincidences are inevitable, mundane, meaningless. But I can’t deny there is something strange and magical in them, too ..." he says.

Have a read of the article. There are some interesting things in it including this one: 

"The biography of the actor Anthony Hopkins contains a striking example of a serendipitous coincidence. When he first heard he’d been cast to play a part in the film The Girl from Petrovka (1974), Hopkins went in search of a copy of the book on which it was based, a novel by George Feifer. He combed the bookshops of London in vain and, somewhat dejected, gave up and headed home. Then, to his amazement, he spotted a copy of The Girl from Petrovka lying on a bench at Leicester Square station. He recounted the story to Feifer when they met on location, and it transpired that the book Hopkins had stumbled upon was the very one that the author had mislaid in another part of London – an advance copy full of red-ink amendments and marginal notes he’d made in preparation for a US edition."

Life is strange and there are many things that we experience that we cannot account for - Robert's posts are just one example.

REM sang in 'Losing My Religion':

"Oh life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes ... "