So, that’s my story.
A four year journey I never asked for or ever, EVER expected to be forced to embark on. But what do you do when you’re handed an unexpected life? You live it.
You take it, carry on, over time learn to embrace it, and eventually you conquer it! And along the way you learn to enjoy the journey–keep your eyes open and marvel at the many unexpected adventures that come your way as a part of it.
After all, “Life is just a journey.” (Princess Diana)
“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” (Robert Doisneau)
I’ve probably said it before but if someone had told me a year ago all that was in store for me and the life that would be mine today, I would have laughed at them. I would have thought they were absolutely looney. Completely crazy.
Such is the unexpected life.
I don’t think Hollywood could have scripted a more unexpected plot, antagonists (some of them) and twists and turns in a single experience, than I’ve been blessed with. And the one thing I can say for it all: it has been not only unexpected but exciting. (I’m not talking about the exciting, looking forward to Christmas morning kind of thrill; I’m talking the terrifying exciting of a heart attack-inducing roller coaster ride when the earth drops out from under you, you lose your stomach, scream and plummet unexpectedly to a new place on the track.)
I certainly never anticipated or would have arranged for the “excitement” that found my life. And honestly, the revelation of a Ponzi scheme and my divorce were just the beginning. There’s more to my unexpected life than a Ponzi scheme, a prison sentence, a divorce, re-entering the singles scene, stalkers, “starting over” in my 40s, returning to the work force full-time, and providing for and raising four children alone.
Quite a bit more.
Here it comes.
