"No man can order his life, for it comes flowing over him from behind ... The one secret of life and development is not to devise and plan but to fall in with the forces at work - to do every moment's duty aright - that being the part in the process allotted to us; and let come - not what will, for there is no such thing - but what the eternal thought wills for each of us, has intended in each of us from the first." (thanks to CS Lewis' anthology)
Thus to say, for those planners like me, forget it. Life is not planned. Life is life. It happens and we need not to plan everything, because those plans will always fail. And we need not to resign ourselves to always having our plans fail. We need to step into life, live it for its worth in the moment, play our role, and then move on to what is next. Or, as John Lennon is quoted as saying, "Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans." So stop making plans and start living life.
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