Expecting the Unexpected

Expecting the Unexpected

Weddings. Graduations. Birthdays. Holidays. An endless list of important occasions. We all have major events in our lives and others’ lives in which we participate. We and people close to us have sometimes exerted tremendous effort organizing celebrations with the intention that everyone involved will enjoy themselves.

In other words, we are accustomed to making plans to be happy and to have a good time. We even map out entire blocks of days in which to have fun in the form of vacations. We develop hobbies in order to ensure that we can devote some hours of our week doing something we know we’ll enjoy.

If you stop and think about it, you’ll probably find that your life is full of unplanned moments, spontaneous events during the course of an otherwise average day that you will retain in your memory as meaningful and recall with pleasure.

It may be a tense meeting that ends in a joke fest that you later remember as the time you laughed harder than ever before. Or it could be randomly speaking to someone who eventually becomes an important part of your life.

Every single day is full of opportunities to become a day that you’ll remember, a day with moments that add up to a lifetime of memories. The trick, of course, is to make yourself aware of now, and to enjoy these moments while they are happening.

The chances are excellent that today… or tomorrow… or this week… will bring you many of these moments. Be open to them. Plan to enjoy this day, and make the most of the days ahead!