Last Saturday afternoon, as I was getting ready to walk home from my friend Bev’s house, the clouds shuddered and an unexpected shower of rain began pelting the windows. It sounded good to me. It sounded like bad timing to Bev.
Her immediate thoughts were: maybe I should wait until the rain stopped or slowed down, or I should, at least, borrow an umbrella, or…
But I was thinking, I couldn’t remember the last time I walked in the rain. So, I pooh, poohed the offer of an umbrella and ventured outside. It was a hot day. The rain felt cool. I noticed steam rising from the ground, as the earth drank its full. Huge drops of rain cascaded down from my head. There was no lightning, no thunder–a perfect day for a stroll. I looked up at the sky as I walked and drops of water splattered onto my face. By the time, I reached my front door, I was soaked to the skin. I stepped inside and dropped my clothes.
Spontaneity had surprised me and gifted me with a glorious, divine, magnificent interlude!
Someone’s said that “spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise…
You don’t think about being spontaneous, you just do it. It comes from within you to do what you like, how you like it and when you want it. It just happens – unplanned, unstructured and best of all, unexpected but still within your power to shape it.
The Cook Family seems to know how to be spontaneous.
The other day Dan got home from work just in time to catch the sun going down . The second he came through the door he said, “grab a blanket, we’re going on the roof.”
This idea tickled me – Manufactured Spontaneity
At Flax, the art supply store, you can buy a notebook with napkins instead of pages. Because so many great ideas started on a napkin. So. You should be ready with some napkins.
Spontaneity–it comes in all sizes.
What about you? Spontaneous or Well Planned Agenda?
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Happiness is a state of mind that really depends how we see the situations in our lives each day. you can have all the riches in the world but still see it as a lonely place.;;`
Happiness is the goal of every human being in this planet , everyone wants to be happy-*-
everyone aims to have happiness on their lives and live a life that is full of it,”
true happiness can be difficult to achieve, you can be rich but still not be truly happy ~”`
I am happy to walk, walk every day, even in the rain
Today I had fun too by walking in the rain, my happiness was “spontaneous” because the rain was too spontaneous, I was not expecting … Lol: ~))
Today I used a picture (without permission) this “post ” on my Facebook, I hope you forgive me.
Thanks
Joaquim Ferreira Patricio
(Portugal)
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