By Marie Bombeck
I am a planner. I always have been and always will be. I am the queen of to-do lists and scheduling. I like to organize my life in micro details. I plan every aspect of my life. I am the girl that always has an idea on how my life should work out and a plan to get there. It may be ever-changing, but one thing is constant, I have planned it all out. I follow the steps and I will get to where I want to go. I do realize that I live in the real world and I can’t just plan myself out of any situation. But boy, I should get points for effort. I get caught up in planning the plan that is to be my life. One phrase that has never described me is “go-with-the-flow.” I try to plan myself out of any situation. When my life goes awry, I do everything in my planning powers to create a plan that will solve all my problems. I like structure. I like knowing what my next step in life is. I like living in the boundaries. I like coloring in the lines. But lately, life hasn’t been following my plan. Don’t get me wrong, it is working out, probably for the better. The path I have been led on is definitely a path I should be on. However, the principle of the matter is that it didn’t follow the plan I laid out for myself, and if I am being perfectly honest, that scares me to death. And when I find myself in unfamiliar territory, I start planning a plan. But what is that saying? You know the one about life and plans? “Life is what happens when you are busy making plans.” But the planner in me sometimes has a hard time seeing the beauty in my unstructured life. But when you are too caught up in the plan, you miss the life lessons you are supposed to be learning, the good things that can happen when life doesn’t go as planned. It has been my New Year’s resolution to stray from my life plan a bit. (See my previous posts, Letting life take you where you need to be or Putting a little more faith in God.) Clearly from past posts, letting go a bit is something I need to work on. However, I have learned to slow down enough where I can enjoy the small bumps in the road. Like even if you don’t get your dream job right away, you got to make the most of where you are in the moment. There are new friends to be made, new things to learn. Because there is a lot more life to live, you abandon where you think you are supposed to be and enjoy where you are. Forget the plan. Throw your hands to the sky and live your life. See where life will take you. Stray a bit. Come back to reality, and then stray away again. That sounds scary, doesn’t it? But hey, maybe something beautiful could come of it. Forget the plan. Live your life. I dare you.
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