Writing of the Day

So I've recently come across a blog where the writer gives her readers a writing prompt of the day and she asks them to write for a minute on the subject. I've decided that this can be a good thing for writing practice, since I frequently feel the urge to write and often lack a topic. So, here goes...

High schools often name one graduate as "Most Likely to Be Famous." What should your "Most Likely to Be..." title have been in high school?

There could be so many answers to this prompt. But throughout high school and since I would have to say I'd be named "Most Likely to Surprise Herself." Through high school and ever since, I've thought I've known who I am. I'm the me I'm comfortable being, and then, all of a sudden, I'm a completely new me. For instance, sports had been a big part of my life from the time I was six or so until I was a sophomore in high school. Then, all of a sudden, I didn't care about it anymore, so I quit. Just walked out of a conditioning practice.

Another, more recent, example is this: Most of my life I've sworn to my family and friends that I didn't want to be married or have kids, it just wasn't me. Then, again all of a sudden, I fell in love with a man named Richard, and fell even harder for his two little ones, C and J (girl and boy). To top that off, I go and have a baby with him, and my whole life changed, for the better. Surprised? You bet, but so happy, as well.

Maybe this happens to everyone. All of a sudden we realize we're not who we thought we were. We're doing something we wouldn't do a year ago, trying something we swore we'd never try, making a life for ourselves we swore we didn't want.

I could've been many things, Most Likely to Succeed, Most Likely to Be a Lesbian, many things. But instead, much to my surprise, I am Most Likely to Surprise Herself. And I am proud of it.