serendipity

(n) - Serendipity is when interesting or valuable discoveries are made without planning or meaning for them to happen.

• Synonyms: blessing, good luck, lucky break
• Antonyms: choice, bad luck
• Etymology: 1754 English, first said by a man named Horace Walpole in a letter he wrote to he wrote to someone named Mann on 1/28/1754. He said he got it from the Persian fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip," whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents."
• Morphology: serendipitous - adj
• Example: It was serendipity that brought me to Burlington, and that led me to teach a combo so that I could meet you!