Of course! We say we are "shocked" or "surprised" when something we weren't paying attention to finally becomes impossible to ignore.
The language of suddenness—"it came out of nowhere"—is a narrative we tell ourselves. It reframes a failure of perception as an act of fate. It turns a slow-moving crisis we chose to overlook into a bolt from the blue we couldn't have prevented.
The real surprise isn't the event; it's our own willful blindness finally catching up with us.
The language of suddenness—"it came out of nowhere"—is a narrative we tell ourselves. It reframes a failure of perception as an act of fate. It turns a slow-moving crisis we chose to overlook into a bolt from the blue we couldn't have prevented.
The real surprise isn't the event; it's our own willful blindness finally catching up with us.
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