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Monday, January 31, 2011

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving ~ Lao Tzu

The best things in life happen unplanned…
How true is that, coz if I recount the life that has gone by or the recent past, all I would say is that the most memorable moments, holidays, lunches, escapades were the ones those were totally unplanned!
We are conditioned to plan everything right from our holidays to our investments to our marriage to our life… phew that should be quite a bit of planning for sure ;). But what exactly is planning?? How can we plan anything at all when we don’t know what the next moment will bring about? And how fool proof will this plan be? I have met many a folks who are uncannily obsessed with planning everything in their life to the tee. Probably it dates back to the human need of security which is ingrained in our minds since eons, or its just plain non acceptance of uncertainty in life.
So what exactly happens when ‘Man proposes and god disposes’ how do we cope-up with it? or when our plans don’t meet our own expectations. The despair and misery that follow are insurmountable at times. But that’s the way existence teaches us to counter the uncertainties in our lives. What with the power of infallible designs would make us less human and more divine.
By all this I wouldn’t say that we should quit planning and organizing our lives, since that’s the only alternate to better our progress. We simply need to be aware and accept that ‘insecurity’ is a part and parcel of ‘higher’ planningJ. Be ever grateful if even half of these are accomplished.
The only thing certain in life is ‘Death’, I know it’s harsh but that’s the truth. But knowing this I couldn’t value life any lesser but live for the moment. You could never be more alive had you been less spontaneous, and enjoy the small pleasures that come your way every single day. Let’s not lose out on these pearls while we busy (rather plan to) collect stones!

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