Serendipity knew me too well

Jonathan Trager

  
                 
prominent television producer
for ESPN

  
                 
died last night from
complications of losing
his soulmate and his fiance

  
                 
He was 25 years old
and soft-spoken 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-Jungian persona...

  
                 
surfaced during
the Agatha Christie-like pursuit
for his long-reputed soulmate,

  
                 
a woman whom he only spent
a few precious hours with.

  
                 
Sadly, the protracted search
ended late Saturday night...

  
                 
in complete and 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 weare 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.
- Destiny.