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Surprise!!

Expecting the unexpected!!Surprises come in all shapes and sizes, times and seasons, good and bad ones.I remember one time when a good surprise left me standing still in utter shock while screaming my lungs out like a  mad person.It was like looking at a ghost!!I hadn't won a prize or anything close to a gift,it was just an unannounced visit from my sweetest big sister who was the last person i would expect ringing the doorbell...to some that might not really mean much but to me, it was like a dream come true! 

Even with  good surprises, i admit am not much of a  fan of the unexpected,mainly because there's no time for mental preparation and being caught off-guard is a tad bit overwhelming.…but the last two days have taught me a few things  about these mini surprises that life brings along;


  1. Reality comes with  an element of surprise, not because it wants to upset the balance of our lives, but because we were too “unaccepting” of the realities of life and there’s no better way to accept something that when it hits you right in the face and can’t be ignored!
  2. Good and bad surprises are like two-sides of a coin,  no matter how you  flip the coin,  you'll  always end up with either of the two and there's never a  3rd option! In mathematical terms, the probability of each is half, so just like in life,we get both the good and bad…so we can’t really say we get a lot of the bad surprises more than the good ones, because from a mathematical point of view, getting either good or bad has equal probability of happening. So….Mathematically speaking, life is fair!
  3. Surprises in life are really not surprises, they are just events unknown and unplanned, and they constitute 99% ( not scientifically proven, just a thought) of our lives.I mean, who knows what will happen in the next few seconds?!?! My laptop could go off at any minute..i could forget the words am trying to write, ...the earth might stop rotating on its own axis…the list of events unknown is  endless.  All am trying to say  with this very vague post concerning the  2 previous  days of my life, is that life is just a mesh of surprises, be it good or bad, that’s just life! We can never be sure of anything and it’s best leaving it to the Author of all these surprises!
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