communicating babble

It's so cool the way life happens. I don't mean this from a scientific perspective, although things happen as equally bad-ass on a microscopic level, but rather through the lens of social interaction and chance. Someone else might sum this all of as normal networking,  but i'll take the long-winded road of trying to make it seem more complicated than it might be. What I'm referring to:  those moments when you can track the significance that one small and seemingly unimportant daily decision has made on your life. I read some articles a while back about how to be more creative and not get caught up in the hum-drum march of life when you stop taking notice of the small things because you naturally forget to observe them because you are so set in your daily routine (note to reader: i don't feel like using commas today). Not that I fervently have been trying to do this (nevermind), but the notion arises sometimes. For example... I used to walk to work the same way everyday on the same side of the street, but then I began to change which side of the street I walked on. Then i got a bike and still took the same way, although riding it gives me many more accessible ways to see different parts of the city on my way home. Sooo, I decided to mix it up every now and again. Doing this last Wednesday, I uncharacteristically stopped to grab dinner to take home from a local tapas bar. I almost didn't, because i have been training myself to eat at home because of all the new and costly hobbies i would like to maintain.

Alas, entering the place I noticed an American guy that i had met once before sitting at a table  with some other people. Here begins the intangibles. Why does one act or think differently from day to day? In my case, why do I sometimes not bother with social "risks", and other times have no qualms about them? This day I was second-guess free. Leaving the restaurant and passing their table, I said "hello fellow americans" and then sat down, chatted, and eventually had some beers and passed the next couple of hours. Since then i have hung out with one of the people, Lorena, a few times, and she seems to be a very interesting person that fits in with my other friends, and is helping me to better solidify some of those friendships nicely.

If you made it though that, i really just wanted to comment on how invigorating and sporadic life can be when you are creating and nurturing new experiences and friendships on a weekly basis. Being in a new country helps immensely, as well as speaking the local language (another aspect completely), but one can also still easily enclose him/herself in the same near-sighted routines that life so often throws at them if they are not careful. Don't hate on my lack of pronoun agreement.

I have other examples, as i'm sure everyone does, but the essence, i think, is how much of a difference the utterance of a few words can make on life. Here is where i should embark on an intellectual and technical discussion of ancient and modern communication, but i'll leave those words unuttered.

Instead, i'd like to invite those who read this to think of a personal example of some small coincidence or event that impacted your life in anyway and to share them in the comments section. Nothing extreme, maybe something you bought that has changed your daily routine and so on...