Fairy Dust
Serendipity, n A combination of events which are not individually beneficial, but occurring together produce a good or wonderful outcome. Easter Sunday 2020, my plan was to get up and go for a run at 8 o'clock. An extra few minutes in bed somehow eats up half an hour and I didn't set out until 8.30. In another house, my friend gets side tracked by the (and I use the word lightly) need to complete another level on a game before heading out for her run, and in a third, another friend leaves exactly when he intended to. Somewhere a little after 9am these random decisions combine in an act of serendipity, our paths crossing at the point where our three running routes converge. Perhaps in different times we might have passed this off as co-incidence, we are all runners, we all live within 3 miles of each other and despite never having met either of them whilst out running before, sooner or later I was bound to meet at least one of them. But when you are under lockdown...