You know how when you meet a stranger, the first few days you always walk in with a perspective. There is this thrill of getting to know them huddled in your gut, playing fiddles with your psyche. You are constantly wrestling with the buzz of ‘not knowing, of thoughts that are teeming with ‘exhilaration’ with a little hint of disquiet.

Whether you are being accepted in someone’s analogy or being rejected by their judgment. The excitement of questions like, ‘Who is that?’ and ‘How to be?’ rile your still waters.

Almost very similar to how one would behave when visiting a new place. The mind is in the process of registering new nuances, sinuous roads making you conscious all of a sudden. Because your brain is yet to become accustomed, memorize patterns and habits. Just imagine depriving your brain of all that! What a way that would be to live. Waking up not knowing where you are going to be because every day would be different. Every path would be the one that was never trodden before.

The more you spend time with that stranger, your perspectives begin to change. Your nerves tend to relax. That person stops existing as a stranger, ceases to remain new. Your brain begins to register that person’s aura as a known demeanor.

Anything they do wouldn’t be alien to a pattern then. Their acts become repetitive, and your mind starts to file them in a known diary of thoughts. They end up becoming that exact definition you slap on known roads, on same places, on same routines, on all the things you call mundane.

That being said, any deviation from the defining underlying benchmarks and one can become a whole different person altogether. Surprise them with your volatility! Do not expect the unexpected! Let it blow your mind away!

Figure out what would you want your life to be. Would you want it to be full of surprises every day, of not knowing where you are going to end up, or would you rather have known paths, a patch of land that reminds you of home? Or maybe a little bit of both?

Let the thrill of ‘not knowing’ pervade. If you don’t have anybody, learn to surprise yourself every now and then. Surprise the lethargic part of you with energy. Seek adventure when your body is about to lie down. Hit those roads that you haven’t been to before. Expand that bucket list!

Hear that thought you had never listened to before. Do that one thing that you have never done before. Do crazy! Catch life off guard.