Surprise is the Spice of Life

One of my life dreams is to have surprise birthday party thrown for me. This may be slightly conceited and self-absorbed of me, but I love surprises. I would venture to say that I love surprises more than the average person. Again, this may be slightly conceited and self-absorbed, but I've been living in the world of academia for the last couple of weeks, so I feel justified in being a little self-aware. And now that I think about it, school is an awful justification for saying conceit. School should make you more aware of other lifestyles and people. Oh well.

For real though. The element of surprise is one of the best parts of life. I know that scientists are trying to discover more of the basic elements that makes up the earth and it's living organisms. To my knowledge, they haven't "discovered" surprise yet. Such as shame.. It is one of the basic components of any good party, social gathering, really anything fun at all. Surprising someone is just a good feeling.

It's like when you leave for school one day with your room looking like a tornado touched down in it, and you come back with the floor clean, clothes folded and hung up, and your favorite snack waiting on your bed to get you the next day of rehearsal and homework. 

Or it's like when you meet a person that gets your sense of humor and thrives on spontaneity as much as you do.

Or when you thought you lost your favorite shirt, only to find it in your best friends closet.

Or when you are in the living room listening to your dad talk on the phone while watching Dragon Tales, and you hear him say he can't speak in church because his family is going to be in Washington D.C. for the weekend. Ahh... Surprise!! :D 

Or when you hide yourself in your best friends closet because she doesn't know that you are home in Minnesota.

It's kind of like that one time where you were put in charge of the lights at a surprise party, and forgot to turn them on when the birthday girl walked through the door. Moral of the story: you can surprise people in the dark and when it is light out!

Whoever said variety is the spice of life was wrong. Ehhh, I take it back. But I would venture to say that variety is only one of the many spices of life. And when you compare it to a good ole fashioned surprise? Variety tastes quite bland in comparison.