“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy”: Seneca It’s for our own convenience that we invented the concept of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.

Whether or not we believe in Divine Providence, whether or not we believe that apparently random experiences contain meaningful lessons that are directly relevant to our life, there is much to be gained from paying attention to chance occurrences.