Formulaic ...

~ life does not surprise us, we surprise ourselves all the time

A formulaic response

A movie with a formulaic plot

Like a good speech or great story, there is a predictable formula.

Beginning, middle and end.

Like life ~ of birth, life, death.

So why get stressed out about things we can surely predict?

I struggle with that one, not so much with predictable day-to-day things as with dealing with the complications I too oft…