Planning, organizing, expectations, set in stone...

I was trying to think of something wonderful to write today when driving from work. I wasn't sure what to write but it then hit me later on in the evening...why do people make plans? I'm not talking about plans to hang out but it can be put into this. We plan ahead for our day, our week, our year, our life. We are constantly looking ahead to what we are going to be doing. Plans to be married to the love of your life by 26 with two kids and a dog. Graduate college in four years. Live a long happy life. Where you will be living in a year, five years, 10 years. Find the job of a life time by the age of 30. Die of old age. But life doesn't work out like that does it? You end up in a loveless relationship with a guy that doesn't do anything, who is allergic to dogs and doesn't want kids. You don't pass a test necessary to graduate college and have to stay longer. You end up working at a dead end job because the economy sucks and it's getting you money which you need. You lose your left contact from your eye and can't get any more contacts until you see the eye doctor two days later. Life is crazy like that. It is never what we planned it out to be...

We have things that come into our life that smashes those plans out the window. It's almost the only thing certain that when you plan something, it will be interrupted or totally wiped away. It's actually kind of funny. If it's going to be rocky why even plan anything? What would life be like if we just lived to actual L I V E. No sense of time, deadlines, being somewhere at the right time. Many would argue it would cause us to become lazy and do nothing. But I believe we all thrive off of love. Love and connections with others would be the fuel that makes you find another person. The people who would sit around and be alone would eventually find a connection with someone, something, anything that would cause them to do something. We all have that thing that makes us do something, we may not know it but it is there. I think the world would be a happier place, it may not run like it is now but there would be a way around it. Who knows...crazier things have happened. Just think no organizers, no blackberries planning out our every move, no words like late. We would be connected by love and trust in humanity. It is something the world is missing.

Really it comes down to this, we can only live in the moment and be thankful for what we have RIGHT NOW. I have to be thankful that I have a heart that beats and lungs that help me breathe. I am ALIVE and LIVING right NOW! I have to learn that plans fall through and it is not something I can get mad about, well at least try not to get mad about. It is this...

I am grateful for all of life. I am being thankful for everything I see and everything I don't see.