Serendipity.

finally saw this movie after the reviews i heard from it. boss-lady at MCare suggested it to me recently, so i figure i should go download it. stop reading if you haven't seen the movie and plan to do so.

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Jonathan Trager, prominent television producer for ESPN, died last night from complications of losing his soulmate and his fiancee. He was 35 years old.

Softspoken and obsessive, Trager never looked the part of a hopeless romantic. But, in the final days of his life, he revealed an unknown side of his psyche. This hidden, quasi-Youngian persona surfaced during the Agatha Christie-like pursuit for his long-reputed soulmate -- a woman with whom he only spent a few precious hours with.

Sadly, the protracted search ended late Saturday night -- incomplete, an utter failure. Yet even in certain defeat, the courageous Trager secretly clung to the belief that life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences. Uh-Uh. But rather, it's a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan.

Asked about the loss of his dear friend, Dean Kansky (the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and executive editor of the New York Times) described Jonathan as "a changed man... in the last days of his life.

"Things were clearer for him," Kansky noted. "Ultimately, Jonathan concluded that if we are to live life in harmony with the universe, we must all possess a powerful faith in what the ancients used to call 'fatum,' what we currently refer to as 'destiny.'"