I feel I'm a disaster saved by random good-hearted strangers

It is interesting how the system works, and just the system in general. I used the word "system", rather than "society", or "world", or "earth" because they are all too specific examples when chaos are invovled. A few years ago, I started to be convinced that not everthing happens logically since that'd be boring to death, and random events are very important -- so important that it's a pain they are actually random.

For instance, this morning, an absent-minded disaster (meaning me) put a full stack of 35 graduate students' homework on the top of her car, unloaded her other crap, and just started driving without remembering those papers she was holding on to a second ago and that they were meant for her to grade. Fortunately, she was honked and waved at by a stranger in a SUV passing her while she was making her first turn in the parking lot, and fortunately, she noticed that that guy was honking and waving at HER, and fortunately, she decided not to ignore this honk like what she did to all the other ones, she got the message -- "hey, there's something on top of your car!!" She was saved for the day.

I can't imagine how embarrased I would have been and how long the embarrassment would have lasted if that stranger didn't run into me today and if I lost all the papers. And it's not just about my own embarrassment, it'd also be those folks' time and labor forever lost. This is not the first time I was saved by randomness, and hopefully not the last. I wondered, after this, how strong the harmonizing and stablizing power this system has got, using random events in many smart ways. What's in turmoil under the mask of peace, and what can we see beneath chaos and noises? Now I'm a truly believer in serendipity -- it may not happen to me, but it will happen to somebody.

So much for today. :)