This essay summarizes a personal history of studies on uoride mediated reactions of enol silyl ethers, metal homoenolate, cytochalasin and cortisone synthesis, cycloaddition chemistry of cyclopropenone acetals and dipolar trimethylenemethanes, biological activity of organofullerenes and DNA and siRNA delivery, organocuprate(I) reaction mechanisms, iron catalyzed cross coupling and C H activation reactions, 15 O labeling for positron emission tomography (PET), functional fullerene molecules including bucky ferrocene, shuttlecock molecules and [10]cyclophenacene, fullerene bilayer vesicles, new design materials for organic and lead perovskite solar cell fabrication, carbon bridged oligophenylene vinylenes and single molecule atomic resolution real time transmission electron microscopy (SMART EM) for structural and kinetic studies of molecules and molecular clusters. It also describes how the encounters with key people may change the course of your scienti c research as well as of your personal life. These examples suggest that life is a stochastic process, and, moreover, science in the future would be something that we do not even imagine now as a subject of research. Figure 2. Prof. Mukaiyama at an alumni party around 1980.