While we can often trace a lot of the problems in our lives to decisions we either made or should have made, it's also true that things can just happen sometimes.
And while the world's little surprises aren't always welcome, some of them don't necessarily affect our lives at all. Nonetheless, even the smaller unexpected happenings can change what we thought was possible.
And thanks to some quick-acting photographers, we now have a chance to see some of the stranger ones in action.
Instead, we can see that the camera taking this photo partially captured someone else's flash in the shot, which ended up making half of the picture much lighter than the other side.
And since the person on the left seems to have summoned a ball of energy in their hands, it's not hard to guess whose flash made this happen.
Considering how rough things have already been over the last year, the last thing anyone wants to hear right now is, "Your problem just got bigger."
It's with a weary heart that I say, "You'll have to be more specific."
I'm not sure we're likely to ever see another one punch through a car while completely missing the windshield quite like this, though.
I'm no expert on bird anatomy so I can't help but wonder whether this is their equivalent of doing the splits or whether this is a more normal stance than I realize.
If you're wondering what we're looking at, it seems that a 551 pound mule deer decided to move in during the few minutes that the photographer spent outside.
Make yourself at home, I guess.
But while playing with the sprinkler looks just as fun for the dog when it's inside the house, the same can't be said for the owner.
And while I consider myself fairly tall, this massive ice formation easily dwarfs me at 8'2''. With that in mind, I'm not sure I'd stand so close to it.
But even if that would indicate that the rainbow has come through the window in the exact same way more than once, it's still pretty amazing that this home is in the exact right position for that to happen.
So what are we looking at, here? Somehow, they managed to stack two balls on top of one another and keep them in place.
If that doesn't seem that impressive, try it right now and see how easy it really is.
However, it turns out that the pieces only appeared that way because the uploader was putting them together backwards.
It turns out that not every company just puts blank cardboard on the back of these things.
Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to what's in there but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it just turned out to be the maintenance worker's forgotten lunch.
But while the results are certainly unusual, it's actually not that hard to figure out what was responsible for this look.
If a vine wraps around a tree while it's growing, it will then restrict that growth to accommodate its stranglehold.
As we can see here, the fact that the uploader did so is the only reason that their house wasn't overrun by lions at the time that they took this.
They seem a little harder to get rid of than a deer.
After all, this person only left their tea unattended for a minute to water their plants. In that time, a bee apparently dived into it and spoiled the whole thing.
Not only is it hard to put it in a container when it's just dripping from your outlets, but I doubt that's terribly goods for the house's electrical system either.
Oh and I suppose there's the slight matter of the fact that the walls would have to be almost literally full of bees for this to happen.
We might have already observed it in people and in animals, but what other word can we use to describe a tree that managed to keep growing after it fell over?
I didn't even know they could do that.
I guess that's one way to make put this explosion of foam insulation into perspective.
It may kind of suck, but at least it's not an invasion by alien life forms that can assume our forms and mimic us exactly.
Apparently, this caterpillar figured that the perfect place to make its cocoon was to dangle from the beak of this iron statue.
And if it makes it to the butterfly stage, I guess that makes it smarter than any of its predators.
And as we can see, that's because the leaf happened to be the exact same color as the car it fell on. If it weren't for that little stem, we might not even know it was there.
The problem isn't just that the chip fragment in the middle was made from a raw potato, as it may appear. No, it turns out that it's actually not made from a potato at all.
Instead, it seems to be a plastic mold that was mixed in with the real chips. At least they'll probably get some free stuff from the company thanks to this little incident.
