Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.

Etymology
The word derives from Serendip, the old Persian name for Sri Lanka, and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read,

"It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highness traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a camel blind of the right eye had traveled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for, comes under this description) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table."

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i am speechless. i am baffled. i am tired. i am guilty.

i didn't know that Passion (fruit) in Malay is Markisa till i spinned the bottle and read the label. i didn't know that i had a pimple on my right elbow till i rested my elbow on the table. i didn't know that everything changed to fast till i had a hard time chasing. i didn't know that when i am trying to please everyone, no one pleases me. no one ever told me this and i don't think anyone will.


Currently listening to 곡 정보 보기 나쁜 마음을 먹게해 (Dance Ver.) by T-MAX

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