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We’re dying while we’re living
and living ‘til our death.
We’re not done with either one
until our final breath.
Believing it can’t happen
doesn’t mean it won’t.
You don’t know what you don’t know
until you know you don’t.
It’s not what we imagine.
It’s not what we surmise.
Everything we ever learn
we learn by surprise.

We make false assumptions.
We see what we expect to see.
We have preconceptions
that do not match reality.
Things we think are genuine
turn out to be fakes.
We learn by trial and error.
We learn from our mistakes.
Everything we ever learn
we learn by surprise,
when something we did not foresee
appears before our eyes.

Everything we ever learn
we learn by surprise,
when what we were expecting
turns out otherwise.

It’s certainly uncertain,
what is or isn’t truly true,
when what’s behind the curtain
is hidden from our view.
I hope you’ve learned your lesson.
I hope you learned it well.
I hope you’re not like Pavlov’s dog,
still waiting for that bell.
Everything we ever learn
we learn by surprise.
Everything we ever learn
we learn by ...
SURPRISE!