Surprise me, I dare you!

Not to tempt fate, but nothing surprises me anymore. The duplicity of my conventional/unconventional nature has always made me look like a fence-sitter. Hell, I voted Independent for years. But as I sit here listening to my son sing "Paranoid" in the shower, and ponder the truly beguiling nature of perception, I realize that my contradictory nature allows me to be a keen observer. What I've observed lately is that peoples' perceptions of things are not reality; that no one really knows what motivates another person to act; and that everything changes. I hate to take the tact that we should never have expectations in life, but it does come down to that. No one knows which decisions they are going to make from day to day. No one can promise you anything for certain. Trust is a dead word. Be more specific. Accept the inexplicable, that no one really knows what another person is feeling, and no one can walk in another person's shoes. People have proven that lately. It's a lesson, as well as a conundrum.