*Wake up, groggily make coffee, wash face, get dressed, make-up, go to class, eat lunch, watch Netflix, take a nap, eat dinner, homework/studying, bedtime.*
This is my normal day. Monday through Friday seems to be a constant cycle of the same exact events — going through the motions until I reach the weekend. But even then, the weekends always seem to offer the same old things too, and I am always left on Sunday feeling like I didn't really accomplish anything.
I like to think I have big plans. Plans I tend to accomplish over the course of my life, whenever I actually find the time to fit them in among the thousands of other responsibilities on my plate. But that's the catch. I feel like as a whole, people tend to push off the things they want to do for a time later down the road, and then stick to the repetitive schedule they know, but may not be completely happy with. It's all about comfortability, and the tendency for us to avoid going out of our comfort zone.
I have a coffee tumbler mug with the saying "Eat cake for breakfast" printed on it, and the other day I stopped and thought about what that could actually mean. I came up with this: it serves as a reminder to me of the importance of doing something unexpected every once and awhile. Some people, including me, often look upon spontaneity as attractive, yet stressful. I love making plans, I love having lists, I enjoy structure in my life, but sometimes I forget to let go of the reigns a bit. Spontaneity is good for your soul. Doing something that is against your normal can be the best thing for you. It seems, that we very often get so involved in our scheduled lives that we forget what it's like to have fun on the spur-of-the-moment.
So do something unexpected. Don't always let time, money, fear, and what other people think, stop you from having an adventure. When we realize that we can not control every aspect of our lives, it is much easier to be happy. Because life is unpredictable, and things happen unexpectedly. While we want to have control over ourselves and the things that happen to us, we can't. So do something out of your normal, take a risk — sometimes things will go in your favor, and in other times they will not. We have to learn to roll with it. Take opportunities that arise in your life, because while they may not always turn out the way you want them to, they also could end up being the best thing to ever happen to you. The cool thing about it is, you can never know unless you take the chance.
"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen." ~ Paul Coelho
