"The best kind of prize is a surprise..."
There are two kinds of surprise in the world. Nice surprises and bad surprised. Bad surprises are like when you find out that your lecturer is in an especially evil mood and has decided to give you two tests in one week just to see the looks on your faces. Or when you get up in the morning and discover that the dog has been sick on the carpet. You get the idea...
Naturally since this is a blog called 40 Days of Love not 40 Days of things I can't stand, I will be writing about nice surprised. (Sorry to all those out there who are disappointed). Nice surprises are best when they are unexpected (That sounded much less redundant in my head) I suppose if we knew that was coming then it wouldn't be a surprise.
Anyway nice surprises are fun. Like Birthday surprises. Unless you are insanely organised like me most of the time you don't know what you are going to get. Btw its not that I don't like not knowing what I'm getting, its more that apparently I'm a hard person to buy for, so I end up telling people what I want. Its not as much a surprise. But each year I will always receive a gift that takes me back. This year it was a little yellow watering can. Its a bit of an in joke, but I might explain the back story later on. I knew this person knew the story behind it, but i never expected them to go out and buy me a watering can for my significant twenty-something birthday....
But birthdays come around each year. So the presents aren't fully a surprise. I mean you always get something on your birthday. Even if it is first-year flu for the forth year running. There are other surprises too. Ones that come completely out of the blue. I like these ones the best.
I was talking to a friend the other night about a fundraising event they had hosted over the weekend to raise funds for Christchurch Earthquake relief. The event went really well and they raised over $2000. (Well done guys) I wasn't able to go but I did bake a cake which got delivered up there which apparently was delicious and somewhat epic. As hinted in earlier posts my baking has a reputation. Anyway as thank you the guys made this: http://imgur.com/a/q1wgZ#KWKrh
I had know idea that they had done this until I had the link sent to me. I was so touched. It was a really nice surprise and it made my day. My cake will be forever remembered in Minecraft.
I think from time to time we all need a bit of surprise in our lives. Whether it is to keep us on our toes or just to stop us assuming that we know what is going to happen next. After all how boring would life be if we could see exactly what was going to happen next? It would be like reading the online spoilers for TV shows that haven't aired in your country... Once you know what is going to happen, there is no point watching. I suspect that is why they are called spoilers.I think surprises are good, and I will enjoy them when they come. Maybe not the unexpected test kind of ones as much though....
<3 S
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