I apologise in advance for my mediocre attempts at explaining what the hell I'm trying to say.
I noticed that people have things happen to them consistently when they are doing things for the first time- and i don't mean 'things happening' as in results from doing whatever it is you're doing the first time poorly, but more like having strange/exciting things happen. For no reason.
An example I'll use is my first job: In the first week or so I was the recipient of a weirdly suggested marriage proposal, a terrifying old man who followed me and memorized my schedule, and a suicide at the skytrain station. And now, nothing. Like seriously, nothing. No creepy people anymore, no more exploding glasses (easy to 'plode when polishing roughly, it's pretty unexpected).
My explanation:
As we are introduced to a new situation, circumstance, or event, (whatever; they're all synonyms for the same concept) we take things in not as blurry concepts which trigger reflexes (I see a big tray of wet cutlery, I look for a dry cloth to dry them with and then make plans to sort, etc that's a reflex) but as things we look at and explore. The first time I was given a tray of cutlery I went wtf and went somewhere else- but that's beside the point; I mean like think of it as being given a gift. There's NOVELTY. After time, there isn't.
I think it's how we look at things.
People say 'seek and ye shall find'. It's similar in the way that when looking for something, you are not particularly sure of what form or circumstance you will find your object/thing/person in when and if you do.
So in conclusion to the above, the novelty of a situation/circmstance/event/thing seems to attract all sorts of things because you don't know what to expect, but you are still expecting something to happen.
[EDIT: Ah crap, I just noticed another topic on this, my bad!!
Luck seems to favor the unsuspecting. Also, never visualise the end result, but visualise yourself getting there. The journey is often more important than the destination- although there are certainly exceptions.]
.....Anyone else thought about it? Or thinks differently?