Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Good Surprises are the Best

Would you rather be surprised or surprise someone else? Write about it!

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Julia Cameron

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Surprise

There are different kinds of surprises. Some are good, some bad. Some righteous, some wrongish. I don't mind surprises if they are done with benefit in mind.

Christmas surprises can be fun. When I give gifts, I try to give things that will benefit the receiver. It's difficult to give gifts to people you aren't around often enough to pick up on their wants or needs. Or people whose needs are way out of your budget. Or people, who have so much of their own, that you are left looking for the gift they did not know they wanted?

Giving to the food banks makes me feel like I've helped. We used to put on church dinners for people who did not have any special family gathering to go to on Thanksgiving. It was a surprise to those people when they were personally invited to dinner on Thanksgiving Day. And, a surprise to the people giving the dinner, when they discovered how many people out there even in a small community, who did not have a dinner invitation. After the dinners started up, they grew at an unexpected rate from year to year. I think someone else is doing those dinners now in a different place to a new generation of needy people.

There are lots of people who don't like Christmas because of gift giving and I think that's fine. But, for me it's the time of year I can just give for the fun of it.

There are other kinds of surprises. My first husband was in the military. He was a sheet metal specialist, worked on aircraft and was good at his job. He was always being called somewhere to take more schooling or work on airplanes that needed his expertise and he never told me when he was coming home. There he would be walking up the front sidewalk or in the door. SURPRISE! I see this a lot on the news. Military dad's walking up to their kids at a school function. SURPRISE!

How about when papers are being passed back after a test that you thought you aced and SURPRISE!

The SURPRISE I don't like is BOO! The person who jumps out at me from a dark spot may get a SURPRISE of their own.

Some surprises are good, some are bad. Dump the bad ones and keep the good ones.

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