Sometimes Life Is Like a Sappy Romance Novel
Would you expect to find a husband at a luncheon attended by 1500 women and 5 men?
Especially if the only man sitting at your table is deep in grief for his wife, who died just a few months before?
Probably not. But then there’s a nudge from your subconscious. Something about this man – yes, we met a few times when we were teenagers, thirty-eight years ago!
Hunting Treasure in Amsterdam
You chat, and then the two of you don’t see each other for another six weeks; but when you do, it takes one evening of conversation for you both to fall head over heels in love.
Unlikely? Sure.
But that’s the way life brought us together. Scout’s honor.
The whole thing seemed so improbable to us that it took a few days for Paul to admit that he was in love, and Carol was completely surprised to hear herself telling a friend, “I met the man I’m going to marry.”
But is the improbable really unlikely?
Living with Unpredictability
If you take a look at how your life has turned out (so far), you’ll find it’s filled with events that could easily have gone another way.
Statistically speaking, your parents were vastly more likely to meet and marry other people, rather than each other. If they had – there’s no you! Unpredictable events and remarkable coincidences happen all the time, and they make a lot of things happen. We’ll bet that every one of the world’s 6 billion people has a least one story of a “one-in-a-million” coincidence — which makes them pretty common.
Even though the improbable is common, and the unpredictable shapes our lives, most people go through life trying to foresee what’s probably going to happen and working hard to make life predictable.
Treasure Hunters do that, too, but we also train ourselves to keep an eye peeled for the unpredictable treasures that life is likely to drop in our path.
Want to find some predictably unpredictable treasures of your own? These two short Treasure Hunts you can go on right now will help you to start seeing treasure all over the place.