expect the unexpected

i’m just startled right now. my co-worker just got his shoulder dislocated just by giving a high five. man i’m just so shocked right now. bedazzled, dazed, stunned like i was in the receiving end of a kabuki warrior’s blinding powder. now they’re bringing him to a nearby hospital.

this just shows you that some things are just so unpredictable and you can never be sure of what’s gonna happen next. forecasting things like these are just preposterous and absurd. i should know this because i’m in the operations side of a contact center and we always forecast how many calls we are going to receive in any given day – and we usually are wrong.

while i’m writing this, i got another news that my former boss got into a bus accident and was injured and is in the hospital. man, they just keep coming.

however, an epiphany came to me while thinking of these things. i now know the real meaning of the phrase “expect the unexpected”. it shouldn’t no mystery to any of us that these thing indeed will happen to anybody including our peers. so we shouldn’t be enraged or be deeply saddened by to the point that we’re suicidal or whatnot. these things will never be permitted unless granted (if you understand what i mean). everybody hurts, everybody dies. everybody will cry, but never let them affect you because they are unexpectedly expected.