The Irony of Unpredictability
People find new things interesting, they get used to them, and they get bored.
Eventually, predictability makes initially interesting things boring.
That then makes unpredictability interesting to anyone who wishes to remain interesting. Be that as it may, the very same people who were fascinated by one’s unpredictability, will before long, adopt a habit of successfully predicting that one will be unpredictable. Which will inevitably make one’s unpredictability predictable.
In a case were you have successfully surprised people nine times, wouldn’t their being surprised by your tenth endeavor, to some extent, unsurprising?
(Isn’t avoiding a routine, a routine? Isn’t one being consistently inconsistent?)
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— September 1, 2010.