Expect The Unexpected

Sometimes, no matter how well you prepare for something, the unexpected happens. I guess you could say this is part 2 of my last melancholy post, “Time Happened”.

Yes, time did happen. I had accepted the fact and was prepared to move forward, as I have found myself saying and doing on quite a few occasions this year.

While preparing for my trip to NY to work the NPC Team Universe during the threat of the approaching Hurricane Hanna, with even more powerful Hurricane Ike on her heels, the atmosphere here was dark and gloomy for a number of reasons. I was flying up the coast at the onset of Hanna, and flying back on Sunday evening. South Florida was predicted to get the full brunt of Ike, who was forecasted to make landfall on late Sunday/early Monday as a category 4 storm.

Mentally, I had already prepared myself for the disappointment of spending my much anticpated, milestone birthday weekend in NY alone, and now I had visions of being re-routed to another city to spend the night in a strange airport alone, while my family and home were under seige of a hurricane.

However, everything took an unexpected turn. I left Florida in the rainy, stormy weather and returned to bright sunshine, not a cloud in the sky. Strange how things work out.                                                              

And, no, I didn’t have a lonely birthday weekend either. Everything went as according to the original plans that were made months ago. I couldn’t have orchestrated things more perfectly.

Just goes to show, nothing is ever set in stone. Learn from the past, learn from your mistakes. Keep the head out of the clouds and feet firmly planted on the ground. Take it for what it is and don’t try and predict the future. Like I said in the last post – such is fate, shit happens. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to hit the fan, though.  I came home from New York a little older (literally) and a little wiser (hopefully).

I’ve got some pictures from the weekend posted over on the lilmisschris photojournal. Check ‘em out – the link is up there somewhere on the right. I’m so tired from the nonstop traveling, I didn’t even use one single cheesy metaphor in this post, did I? My brain hurts. I seriously need to get some shuteye before I drop like bird-poop from a tree….. DOH!

 

                            

~ by lilmisschris on September 11, 2008.