Jenny Evans Dunham

My four-year-old grandson had an interesting experience a few weeks ago. I gave his mom a box of MultiGrain Cheerios for them to enjoy. The next morning she noticed that my grandson was looking for food in the refrigerator. This was rather odd because his bowl of cereal was sitting on the table waiting for him. When she asked him why he wasn’t eating his Cheerios, he told her that some of them were burned and he didn’t want to eat them. Since this was his first time to eat MultiGrain Cheerios he didn’t understand why some of them were darker than others. Once his mom explained to him that they just looked different because they were made from a different grain he ate them without any problems.

Isn’t this so true for adults also? Many times we don’t realize what we have because it doesn’t look like we expect it to. Maybe it’s something we’ve never even heard of before. How many things do we miss out on in life because we’re looking so hard for the familiar that we don’t even see the new possibilities that await us?

I remember back to 1997 when I was first getting used to the Internet and how to use it. Everything looked so different from anything I had seen before and I wondered where all of this would go. Now I know. The Internet is an integral part of my daily existence. Any time I need to look up something it’s right there at my fingertips. What if I had been afraid to try the Internet because it was new and didn’t look like what I had seen in the past? I would be missing out on so much now.

As you set goals for your life, be sure to leave some room in your plans for the unexpected to show up. If you don’t, you could miss out on a whole new world!