The Riddle Behind Destiny
Shaneen Angelique P. Morales
The Riddle behind Destiny
“Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences, uh uh, but rather it is a tapestry of acts that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan.”-from the film Serendipity As most people say, there are no accidents in life and that everything happens for a reason. But there’s this existing distinct accident in meeting your someone; a fortunate accident or chance—serendipity. Serendipity as defined by movies.about.com, is the phenomenon of finding agreeable things not sought for such as a natural gift for making useful discoveries by accident. So, how do these fortunate chances in the movie give us an ideal romantic comedy film? To start with, Jonathan Trager and Sara Tomas, who are both strangers to each other, met by accident at Bloomingdale’s during the holiday season to buy gloves for their respective lovers. Though both happily committed to others, there is this first attraction spark that occurred between them. Sara, a believer of fate, and Jonathan, the pragmatic one, tried to test fate. They split up to know if destiny will bring them back together. They tried writing Sara’s phone number on a paper but it flew away. So Jonathan wrote his name on a five-dollar bill while Sara wrote on the inside cover of a second-hand book entitled “Love in the Time of Cholera”. They declared that if these items will return to them, then they are really destined for each other. Should we rely on this belief of destiny? There are some people who believe in the idea of destiny and there are some who don’t even believe it. As I’ve watched this movie, the idea of destiny keeps on bothering me and then I was inspired to solve the riddle behind it, whether this has something to do in meeting someone or it is just something that people created out of their imaginative minds and that it never really existed. I do believe that there is really that one person who is destined for us but if you don’t do
The Riddle behind Destiny
“Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences, uh uh, but rather it is a tapestry of acts that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan.”-from the film Serendipity As most people say, there are no accidents in life and that everything happens for a reason. But there’s this existing distinct accident in meeting your someone; a fortunate accident or chance—serendipity. Serendipity as defined by movies.about.com, is the phenomenon of finding agreeable things not sought for such as a natural gift for making useful discoveries by accident. So, how do these fortunate chances in the movie give us an ideal romantic comedy film? To start with, Jonathan Trager and Sara Tomas, who are both strangers to each other, met by accident at Bloomingdale’s during the holiday season to buy gloves for their respective lovers. Though both happily committed to others, there is this first attraction spark that occurred between them. Sara, a believer of fate, and Jonathan, the pragmatic one, tried to test fate. They split up to know if destiny will bring them back together. They tried writing Sara’s phone number on a paper but it flew away. So Jonathan wrote his name on a five-dollar bill while Sara wrote on the inside cover of a second-hand book entitled “Love in the Time of Cholera”. They declared that if these items will return to them, then they are really destined for each other. Should we rely on this belief of destiny? There are some people who believe in the idea of destiny and there are some who don’t even believe it. As I’ve watched this movie, the idea of destiny keeps on bothering me and then I was inspired to solve the riddle behind it, whether this has something to do in meeting someone or it is just something that people created out of their imaginative minds and that it never really existed. I do believe that there is really that one person who is destined for us but if you don’t do