Once, my only cousin had a sudden stroke and he just
felled down, petrified. We were having a holiday trip together in Guam.
Everything was normal before the stroke came. Having lunch, we were talking
about how brilliant Guam was and what were we going to do after lunch. Then,
somehow he felt a bit dizzy, so he stood up, and tried to “disperse” such a
dizziness. He has always had this problem, but we had not regarded it as
something big, until the stroke came. He started twitching all in a sudden.
Both of us were freaked out. Then, he just stopped moving; not a sign of
movement but slight breathes occurred. It was totally unpredictable, and I
couldn’t figure out what I should do. Then after I realized this is something
serious, I immediately as the clerk to call for an ambulance. Fortunately,
everything was alright.
Our lives are full of unpredictability, and that’s
exactly why lives are fascinating. We can’t predict what would happen, yet we
get a chance to try to influence, or possibly change our future. In other
words, we make our futures. Unpredictability affects events at the moment when
you think there’s no other possible outcome. Sometimes it gives people hope,
while sometimes despair occurs.
Unpredictability appears in plots by acting as a
surprise and ridiculous turning-points. It doesn’t appear after suspense, since
suspense, I believe, creates certain level of predictablitiy. Knowing the occurrence
of unpredictability somewhat makes readers keep going on, since the readers
know that there could still be hopes in a tragedy, and there won’t be always
happy endings in every story.
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