Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.
There is always room for coincidence.
Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings... serendipitously.
