Expect The Unexpected

Sometimes our plans don't happen just the way we imagined them. Things happen that we have no control over. We tend to rely on our present circumstances. We forget that what will happen tomorrow, or even an hour from now, is totally beyond our control.

We can plan everything that we want to happen in our lives. What do we want to be five years from now? Where do we want to be 10 years from now? Who are we going to marry? Name it. But at the end of the day, we all know that some plans don't work out just like that. Plan all you want, but there's no guarantee that it's going to happen. You can write in your planner everything you want to accomplish within a year, a month, a week, or a day. It's so easy to write. It's so easy to plan. But some unpredicted events occur. The truth is, we have no idea what's going to happen tomorrow. Of course, we want to be optimistic and hope that we can execute our plans for tomorrow. But life doesn't always go that way.

There are some people who have plans for today but weren't able to wake up this morning. There are some individuals who had plans on going for a run this morning but woke up feeling sick, or it rained suddenly. Some planned to watch the concert but ran out of concert tickets to buy. Others had planned on going to their favourite restaurant for dinner, but the flow of traffic was heavy, so they decided to eat dinner at home instead. 

We never plan to get sick. We never plan to arrive late. We never plan to get stuck in heavy traffic. We never plan to get soaked by the rain. We never plan to run out of cash. We never planned for our cars to stop right in the middle of the street. We never plan to get our hearts broken. We never plan to fail an exam. Someone never planned to get pregnant. Someone never planned to get fired from his or her job. Some of us don't have a plan for what our coffins should look like when we die. Some of us don't have a plan for where our bodies are going to be buried when we die. We never plan these things, but they happen. We never want them to happen, but they do. They just occur. Sometimes without a warning. 

It's so easy to plan. It's so easy to expect that things will just go according to plan. But that's not how simple reality is. Things happen unexpectedly. Unforeseen circumstances occur. Sometimes a backup plan isn't enough. We are not in control of the future. We can never be fully prepared for what's going to happen next. Sometimes we have to rearrange our plans. All that is certain is the present moment. No matter how much we want to take full control of the circumstances that might occur, we can never do that. All we can do is hope and pray that even though there's a delay or redirection of our plans, it will work out for our good. Not exactly the way we imagined them, but better than what we hoped for. 

au revoir. 😊