Life is not a mystery, but it certainly can be filled with surprises.
People’s behavior, their actions, reveal what’s important to them. Where they spend their time, what they’re attracted to, what distracts them, and what appears as obligatory or what implies something about them, all point to it. When looking at one’s life, this is the tapestry that paints a picture of what one considers to be important. So it’s not a mystery when reading the signs. The surprises along the way, the interruptions and disturbances that reconstitute an already determined course, are the juice of life.
You thought you knew what you were going to do. You thought you knew who you were going to do it with. You just thought you knew. You had it all planned out, and then Life happened.
To have a surprising life, you must make room for surprises. You must introduce a new order of things. You must reach out. You must engage. You must intrude. You must alter your habits, and you have to always introduce discomfort into the mix. You have to say YES to where you predictably say NO. These are the elements that allow for surprise.
Great change comes from shifting what was important to what is important.
Not easy, but it certainly introduces a surprising life.