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Follow Your Hearts’ Dreams
Prepare yourself to receive.
You probably have heard that hard rubber, the type we know and use today, was discovered by chance by Charles Goodyear in 1839. Goodyear, “accidentally dropped some India rubber mixed with sulfur on a hot stove and so discovered vulcanization …, [a] chemical process by which the physical properties of natural or synthetic rubber are improved.” (source britannica.com)
If you do a quick google search you will find that Velcro, microwave ovens, Penicillin, Teflon, Viagra, Play-doh, and Saccharin also fall into the category of serendipitous discoveries.
Were these inventions just the result of good luck, coincidence, or perhaps some kind of wonderful accident? Julia Cameron would probably disagree. Cameron states,
“We call it coincidence. We call it luck. We call it anything but what it is — the hand of God, or good, activated by our own hand when we act in behalf of our truest dreams, when we commit to our own soul….
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow…. I have marvelled at the sleight of hand with which the universe delivers its treats.”
