When life has a plan for you, it has a way of bringing you round to its plan sooner or later. The chance meeting that surprises or upsets you. That’s life’s way. We seldom see it or accept it for what it is but it sets the trajectory for our life that follows.

I have a meeting with Lara at her office. When I arrive she’s in a client meeting and I wait outside her office making small talk with her secretary, Sabrina.

When Lara opens her office door, I don’t immediately see who her client is. She’s looking back at her client as she talks to them and then...