If writers wrote stories as serendipitous as real life it is doubtful they would ever get published.

Our lives never follow a neat plot line. Unexpected, unplanned events, decisions and choices often derail our best laid plans and send us in new directions.

The one type of story that does imitate life and can find and audience is an adventure. Unlike mysteries, thrillers or tales of love or revenge, adventures don't need a plot. There is no cause and effect relationship.

An adventure keeps us in suspense with a series of unpredictable events. Every ending is a beginning.

Over the years I've found it easiest to experience life as an adventure and resist the temptation to explain everything. Certainly I could never have predicted that I would be living my life as I am now.

I haven't lived my life by any plan I had originally dreamed. Each time circumstances, sometimes of my making - sometimes not, have taken me on a detour. It has been both frightening and exciting.

I no longer expect events in my life to fit a ready-for-prime-time script. I try to embrace each new day as an adventure.

I am trying to resist the temptation to explain everything. Why doing my best isn't always good enough. Why the line in which I stand is usually the slow one. Why some people have to assign causes and blame to everything including the common cold. Why some things frighten me and others don't. Etc., Etc.

When things have gone wrong in my life I have prodded on out of curiosity, wondering what the next moment will bring. I am intrigued by the possibilities of tomorrow.

Life is full of surprises. Some of my most challenging experiences, some of the lowest periods of my life have set in motion twists and turns that have led to extraordinary opportunities and happiness.

Discovering what might happen next is for me compelling and exciting.

Life is an adventure. Treat yourself to something that makes you happy today that fills you with joy. Curl up on the couch and take a nap, putter in the garden, eat an ice cream cone, go to a movie matinee, watch cartoons, eat cotton candy, take a bubble bath, ride your horse, play outside with your children, go window shopping for cars, call your mom, sit under a tree with a good book, build something, take something apart, play with the dog, go to the beach, make cookies, call a friend, go for a walk. Do something relaxing,fun...something just for you.