Serendipity and the Happy Accident at Christmas
The moral case for opening yourself up to happy accidents at Christmas.
People are happier at Christmas.
There's just something about all the beautiful decorations and the excitement about getting together with people you love, some of which you haven't seen in a long time. Not to mention all the presents you're going to hopefully get from these people. It just makes people feel better despite how the weather can be a problem when it gets out of control. They smile at each other more and are nicer to others because of the time of year. So you're willing to open yourself up to them and make others feel as good as you do. You're also willing to consider the possibility of magic in the air and the love it can potentially bring your way. Especially because so many of people's problems feel like they can be solved in the easiest ways possible.
Accidents don't feel like frustrations and reasons to get angry with each other. They feel like happy moments worth exploring with whoever you've bumped into. Like the whole world has come together entirely for the possibility of your meeting. You can love it all so much and it might just change your whole life if you remain open to it. The other person has to be open to it as well and to see it the way you do or something similar. Which is extremely difficult to have happen but that's what magic is for. To make the impossible seem actually possible. Finding love never seems more real and powerful than at Christmas.
The problem is trying to actually maintain these feelings the rest of the year. When you don't have the magic of Christmas and the potential happy feelings that it gives people to keep you going. It's not nearly as easy and you're likely to lose hope in between one Christmas and the next. Maybe you'll even lose the idea that there's any magic in the world at all, even at Christmas. If you can keep it in your heart that the feelings you have at Christmas are real and worth pushing through the rest of the year you’re better off. Hopefully with someone at your side to keep the feelings alive. You just don't know when it's going to happen to you. That's why they call it an accident.
Serendipity is all about the happy accidents that happen at Christmas. Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas, as played beautifully by John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, have found themselves part of a happy accident. Through what seems like a random chance meeting, they meet and can't help but be drawn to each other. The magic of the moment gives them a reason to explore it further. Despite the fact that both of them are already with someone and shouldn't want it, they do. Yet at the same time it feels like this isn't the time to get together and so they have to find a way to come to terms with that when it's not Christmas. That is until another accident just might bring them back together.
Almost like it's a Christmas present.
Do yourself a favour and explore the happy accident of Christmas by checking out Serendipity as soon as you can.
You can watch Serendipity on Hulu as well as Amazon and Apple TV.
It's hard to think of behaving like it's Christmas when you are constantly being dive-bombed with negativity by the 21st century media.
And while you’re in the mood to watch heartwarming movies, check out About a Boy. IMO, Hugh Grant gives the performance of his career, and the film includes the first significant role for Nicholas Hoult (impressive performance, especially for a preteen). Toni Collette is wonderful, too. It’s a far superior film for the holidays than Love Actually.