Good things:
- When you choose a doctor at random from the phone book and later realize what a terrific decision you made.

- When you're invited, based on your past work, to contribute an article to an academic anthology, even though you've left the field.

- When a guy says to you on your third date, "when you meet my parents..." and you don't freak out.

- When you tell your mother you met a guy through an online personal ad, and her response is, "Oh, I just went to a wedding of a couple that met that way!"