Literally Anything Can Happen

Here’s the thing: you don’t know everything. In the last few years, I’ve felt like this vast access to information has been a bit of a lid on wonder. Like when you're talking to a kid about mermaids or dragons and they say “those aren’t real”. My usual reply is “you don’t know that.” I’d love to say that I say it calmly and inquisitively, but it’s definitely a five year old me rising to the surface. I’m trying to have fun and you're being boring.  

Anyway, I’ve felt like there is a new societal aversion to being caught unaware. We don’t want to look stupid for believing in mermaids, we want to look smart. With the internet, there’s no reason not to know everything, and we live in a culture that shames you for not doing your google search before asking a question. But ask the smartest, most qualified and intelligible people out there, ask Chat GBT even, no one knows what tomorrow holds. Knowing “everything” doesn’t hold a candle to the vastness and fullness that life really is. 

Tomorrow is packed full of opportunity. There’s so much you don’t know, and thank goodness! How dull would that be? As of today, I have no proof mermaids don’t exist. I have no proof I’d be a bad skier, I have no proof someone isn’t out there hoping to meet a friend like me one day. I have no proof tomorrow will look exactly like today, but the chances are slim. Literally anything can happen. What if it’s amazing?

I invite you to go blast Unwritten (by Natasha Beddington of course) in your room, headphones, car, wherever you are at in your day. Lean in. It’s one of those songs that even if you’ve never heard it, I’m sure you somehow know all the words. Let this grocery store banger be a goofy “no one has to know about this” encouragement to your life today.