A note I wrote on facebook
The last time I tried to write this, facebook played villain and the whole note got deleted. Here's attempt 2. Nothing much to say really but its just been pretty long since I rambled something. I've always been into planning. Been an advance planner of sorts. Sometimes over planned. Like at 18 I knew what I wanted to name my children, that type of hilarious planning. Mom thought I was plain crazy while some friends blamed the typical Virgo meticulous planning syndrome raised to the power of infinity. However, as life plays its beautiful games with us all the time almost every plan that I thought I had figured completely backfired and I ended up with something totally different than what had been planned.
Not a shocker for many of you I'm certain. Life's like that! People told me to stop planning. Make a conscious effort to not think of how you want a particular situation to evolve, go with the flow, blah..blah..blah. But, come to think of it isn't making a conscious effort to not plan also a type of planning?
I had a plan, graduate at 21, complete PG by 23, start working with a newspaper for a couple of years, meet Mr Right (oh that illusion!! calls for a whole other note doesn't it ;)) have kids and life will be sorted by 30. So I graduated by 21 luckily haha, even completed post grad and secured a job with a leading newspaper in Mumbai. However, what do you do when on the first day of your first job within the first hour you realize that this is not where you want to be at all! This job that I had planned to get for x amount of years lasted as long as my tenure in the company. All of 8 hours!
You obviously don't have a back up! Like advance planning wasn't bad enough you actually expect me to have an advance back up plan? What do you do? It's simple really. You start all over again. It's difficult but you figure it out, it hurts but you learn to deal with the pain, you're alone but at least you are searching for something that will lead you to your inner peace which ultimately is the only thing that should matter
Start afresh, start step by step, don't regret and start one day at a time..
The last time I tried to write this, facebook played villain and the whole note got deleted. Here's attempt 2. Nothing much to say really but its just been pretty long since I rambled something. I've always been into planning. Been an advance planner of sorts. Sometimes over planned. Like at 18 I knew what I wanted to name my children, that type of hilarious planning. Mom thought I was plain crazy while some friends blamed the typical Virgo meticulous planning syndrome raised to the power of infinity. However, as life plays its beautiful games with us all the time almost every plan that I thought I had figured completely backfired and I ended up with something totally different than what had been planned.
Not a shocker for many of you I'm certain. Life's like that! People told me to stop planning. Make a conscious effort to not think of how you want a particular situation to evolve, go with the flow, blah..blah..blah. But, come to think of it isn't making a conscious effort to not plan also a type of planning?
I had a plan, graduate at 21, complete PG by 23, start working with a newspaper for a couple of years, meet Mr Right (oh that illusion!! calls for a whole other note doesn't it ;)) have kids and life will be sorted by 30. So I graduated by 21 luckily haha, even completed post grad and secured a job with a leading newspaper in Mumbai. However, what do you do when on the first day of your first job within the first hour you realize that this is not where you want to be at all! This job that I had planned to get for x amount of years lasted as long as my tenure in the company. All of 8 hours!
You obviously don't have a back up! Like advance planning wasn't bad enough you actually expect me to have an advance back up plan? What do you do? It's simple really. You start all over again. It's difficult but you figure it out, it hurts but you learn to deal with the pain, you're alone but at least you are searching for something that will lead you to your inner peace which ultimately is the only thing that should matter
Start afresh, start step by step, don't regret and start one day at a time..
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