I've seen so many movies where the main character is fortunate enough to make acquaintance with wizards, talking animals, guitar gods and poets by simply bumping into them at a serendipitous moment. Ok, I get that movies have a LOT of serendipity in them, but it's not completely unrealistic. That's how the rest of the world is. One well planned coincidence after another. Some connections occur as if God just rolled two people like dice and they happened to fall in the same coffee shop. It's a constant gamble. Worry not, I'm not one of those people who leaves absolutely everything up to chance, but it has to be understood that human lives only take up a corner of a corner of the gargantuan mesh of what is not only the world, but the universe.
The autonomy people have can't take credit for everything. Which isn't bad, per se. It's quite beautiful. The idea that each life is a result of another. People are held at the mercy of each other even though they can't see all of the indirect influence that goes on. Especially with chance encounters. To think that meeting someone could be affected by promotions, funerals, late-night cravings and stalled cars is insane! What stands between me meeting a wizard is timeliness. That magical instance in time when the actions of two people are synchronized. When Neil Gaiman just happens to want some coffee at the same time I do. When one decides to do laundry next to a soul mate.
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