I always think about my life and try to find reasons for some things and explanations for other things. I’ve come to realize that, even though my mom says”everything happens for a reason,” sometimes the reasons are unclear until much later in life.
From the prologue:
The title, The Drunkard’s Walk comes from a mathematical term describing random motion, such as the paths molecules follow as they fly through space, incessantly bumping, and being bumped by, their sister molecules. That can be a metaphor for our lives, our paths from college to career, from single life to family life, from first hole of golf to eighteenth. The surprise is that the tools used to understand the drunkard’s walk can also be employed to help understand the events of everyday life. The goal of this book is to illustrate the role of chance in the world around us and to show how we may recognize it at work in human affairs. I hope that after this tour of the world of randomness, you, the reader, will begin to see life in a different light, with a deeper understanding of the everyday world.
Who knew that I would end up getting married to a person I knew for years and years but always thought of as a good friend because we had been friends for so long? He always jokes about how he worked so hard to get out of the “friend zone” and I’m glad he did. The truth is, you never know. You can try to map out plans for your life but it will only set you up for disappointment; everything about life can’t be planned. The truth is though, I like it that way. If all of my plans had worked out I would be a completely different person…and I’m proud of the person I have ended up becoming!
July 26, 2008 at 2:00 am |
Great post Krissy. I have that book on my TBR list, and you’ve made me think about bumping it up the list.
I agree with the point “you never know.” Lisa & I spent the first 15 years of our marriage emphatically NOT wanting kids. Now here we are 4 years later eagerly awaiting our adoption of two kids. Weird…