Ambitious, spontaneous impetus

Somewhere between spontaneity and ambition, I find the way I ought to spend each moment.

It's simple. Look around you. Watch the movement in the streets. You'll see people driving to work, store clerks moving about tending their stores, students walking to school, talking to friends, baby carriages, traffic lights, newspaper stands telling you the daily weather and sport scores right on schedule, etcetera. But then you'll see a car stop a bit short for no apparent reason, or a news story that completely catches you off your guard, or a guy kiss the girl he's walking to school with. And these spontaneous happenings aren't rarities. In fact, they're part of our every day lives, just as much as the ambition that drives people to work every day. the fact is, whether we notice it or not, there are unexpected, crazy, spontaneous things happening all around us -- in fact thy happen so often that it's almost inaccurate to call them unexpected. We ought to factor in the unexpected when planning out our every day.

So what are we to do? Is there any cut and dry simple philosophy that we can pack up and take into the world with us each day, like our briefcase? I don't think so. Wisdom, justice, virtue, and all the things that matter most are too high above us for us to rightly define.

Our lives don't have lesson plans that our teacher has set before us so we may know the direction our course will take. Our lives are more like novels that must surprise us to keep our interest, and we're not the authors or the readers. We're the main characters.