It’s some line from a book, so don’t get your hopes up. There were a few good ideas floating around in it. “If you wait long enough, something strange will happen” was one of them. And I truly believe that it will. You might be waiting a really long time for anything spectacular enough to register in our highly expectant minds, but something will happen, and it will be strange.

We all live with the winds of unexpectedness blowing in our faces. At any moment, it could pick up a fence and hurl it into our life’s path. There are illnesses that we have to deal with, confrontations with other people outside our bubble (no matter how big or small your jail cell may be), bonds with friends and family members that are stretched out and in need of repair, and other more uninvited inevitable truths. And you’d think that with the sheer number of lessons we’ve dragged ourselves through, we seem to keep forgetting what we’re trying to learn. Which makes me wonder just how much a part of the experience is in the lessons, as well as the result.

I guess it’s easier to keep doing what you’ve always done. The lessons are easier, you’ve already seen the answers for this test a hundred times before, so you continue to score a B grade (somehow you always screw up a little) and life goes on. And if you wait long enough, something strange will happen. Something strange that will kick you sideways. It might not hurt, but you’ll certainly be dizzy from the experience.

But it’s not just about the result, it’s about taking part in the lesson.

(… I wish I could have convinced my school teachers to listen to me on that one.)