Plans

"If you are successful, it'll never come from the direction you predicted. Same is true if you fail."

Plans... ha. I can't help but laugh at the word. I am at a point in life where all of my plans have flown out the window. Maybe they were attached to a homing pigeon and one day it will come back with the answer to why they left in the first place. I don't think I will hold my breath. I think I have to figure that one out on my own. My friend hindsight will help me I am sure. So I don't have a grand plan. I don't know what I will do tonight, tomorrow, next week, next year. But would it really matter if I did? I learned at a young age usually the best times are spontaneous and unplanned. When did I start believing without a plan my whole life would fall apart? Expectations, arrangements, preparations...they have deceived me once again. My newly found companions of synchronicity, chance and intuition behoove me now.

Don't get me wrong I know it is important to have goals, dreams, desires, wants and needs. And in order to get from A to B you have to follow a path. But I also agree that path can take on a million different forms. So I have goals, I have dreams and let me tell you I have desires, but I do not have plans, at least not at the moment. I am walking my path with an open heart and an open mind, keeping a keen eye out for an opportunity to be of service and to understand myself and others better. I trust that the decisions I make on this road will serve me much better than any plan could. I have the utmost respect for plans but I am weary of their shallow promises. I have been let down by plans, things that never existed but in my mind and now I realize that the alternative to the plan is that which in reality is necessary. So be weary of living unfulfilled by the plan and afraid of the unplanned life, where the possibilities are unknown but perhaps brighter. There is a time and a place for a plan and a time and a place to let go of the plan. In any case the next time someone tells you "Sorry, I've got plans" you can tell them "I wouldn't bet on it".