巧遇

人生里每天有很多普遍的事情发生，起来刷牙，上所，都是平常不能再平常的习惯。但有时人生会有新的体验和巧遇。这些通常会永久留在脑海里。今天发生了一件特别巧的事。我从两年前开始去一家海鲜店，他卖的食品是夏威夷传过来的，在一碗饭里加不同的生鱼片，比如鲑鱼，金枪鱼，虾，蟹，等等。跟寿司很相似，为此在美国最近很受欢迎，我和我老婆变成这家的常客了，没几个星期去吃一次。今天也去了，没想到碰到了我爸妈！他们住的一小时以外的郊区，为啥遥远的跑到洛城城内来了。真是吃了一惊，像是在国外哪里旅游时不约而合地见到了老朋友似的。原来也有道理，我太太喜欢吃鱼片，带了我妹妹去吃了那家一次，过一段时间我妹妹又拉着我爸妈去吃过，我爸喜欢那里厕所干净，就也变习惯到那儿去喝奶茶之类的，今天正好给我碰上了。经常我在朋友圈里有熟人认识另外朋友圈里的人时也有这样的感觉，世界一下子显得小了。

有些人说巧遇是有缘分的，我也不知道是不是，但很多生活里的大事是从碰巧引起的。我做的功作就是碰巧申请了一个在网上登出来的广告，结果以后就一直干下去了。主要是给机会让生活产生巧遇，经常做些新的，改改口味之类的，申请不一样的工作，脑子开放一点。生活偶尔会回报个有趣的事情或重要的发展。试试吧！

Chance meeting

In the course of life many ordinary things happen like brushing one’s teeth, going to use the restroom, they’re all the most mundane of mundane occurrences. But once in a while life will give a new experience or chance encounter. Many times, these are the ones that are etched into one’s brain. Today, there was an extremely chance encounter. From two years ago I started going to a seafood poke restaurant, its recipe is brought over from Hawaii, and each bowl has a variety of different types of raw seafood, including salmon, tuna, shrimp, crab, etc., etc. It’s a lot like sushi, so it’s garnered a lot of popularity recently in America. MJ and I have become regulars at this restaurant, we go every week or so. Today we also went, but who would have thought we’d bump into my parents! My parents live in the suburbs an hour away from where we live, so why did they come from so far away to the L.A. downtown area? I was really surprised, almost like bumping into an old friend in a foreign country without planning on doing so. Actually it makes sense, MJ likes eating poke, and she took my sister to that restaurant once, and then my sister took my parents to eat there once, my dad liked that place because its toilet is clean, so they made it a common practice to buy boba there, so today we met up. It’s the same feeling I get when someone from my friend group knows someone else from another one of my friend groups, suddenly the world seems very small.

Some say that chance meetings are destiny, serendipitous. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but many of life’s biggest moments are caused by “getting lucky” and being in the right place at the right time. The work I currently do is because I happened to apply for a job posting on the internet, I was hired during law school, and as a result I’ve been doing that type of work ever since. The main thing is to allow life to give you those opportunities for lucky encounters, and in order to so one should try new things, change up the restaurants one visits, apply for different types of jobs, expand one’s way of thinking. Life will once in a while give back and offer a unique occurrence (like the one today) or important development. Give it a try!

Fantasize on,

Robert Yan