I was reflecting today on how life needs to make space for the unpredictable. How many times have you seen a picture or a news story and thought that the future is somehow predestined in that picture? I have found that I have a habit of projecting the future onto something that is only in this moment and is bound to change.
There is something quite beautiful about the idea of children being surprised by the unexpected. I recall that this happened to me in my 6th birthday, when I was unexpectedly surprised with 'early' birthday presents prior to that date. I couldn't believe at that time that somehow rules could be bent on enjoying birthday celebrations. Quite often, surprises come from very unexpected spaces, but the problem with adult life is that we often don't stick with something long enough to be genuinely surprised by it. Rather than waiting for the beautiful things to come from something, we keep changing the channel to find something that is immediately within our control. So I found that sometimes we have to go back to being someone who waits for surprises, but does so not in an expectant way...maybe is just open to the possibility of surprise.
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