It's a Magical Life - starring ME

It took until 62, but am now fully prepared to accept that life is filled with magic.  To realize that most of the time - 99.9999999999999999999% - we don't see.  In spite of it being smack dab in front of us.  We just don't see it.  Look right through it.  

And on the rare occasion that it does manage to glimmer through, we - being the practical sensible reasonable beings we are - chalk it up to luck coincidence chance.  

Mastering two simple sentences - feeling their truth throughout every fiber of your being, in every nook & crannie of your soul - is all that's needed to see through the heavy curtains that block our view of delight wonder amazement.  

Expect everything.

Be prepared to be surprised.

Now, those aren't so difficult to fathom, are they?  Or maybe they are.

When I first heard, "Be prepared to be surprised" (the last line in Dan in Real Life), my world shifted.  Could feel it.  But sprinkle in & stir "Expect everything" & voila ~ ~ all boundaries, all expectations of the prosaically practical, the utterly everyday, the unfailingly uninspired totally completely forever fall away.  

And you're left with a life filled with magic.  

Or at least I am.  

Hopefully John, too.