Closing the Map

I wonder how many times I've been asked, "So what's your plan for your life?"

This question implies the idea that we have to have a plan, a focus, an idea of where we're going. however, making plans for the future isn't the problem - it's when the plan becomes the focus and the destination is lost. we get so hung up on forcing "our way" of arrival and we forget that perhaps there's more than one way to cross the country, more than one way to find happiness, more than one way to become who we are.

How about we lean less on the plan and more on this plan: plan to be surprised.

There is a structure to no structure, a plan to no plan, a direction to no direction. But there's also flexibility, independence, free-will, spontaneity, and liberation.

How beautiful is the feeling of freedom? How wonderful the sight of closing the map? How exhilarating to rely on instinct?

Sometimes our plans fall apart and we need to be prepared. People break promises, they walk away when we least expect it. But maybe we just need to learn to broaden our horizons. We make plans that we think are so right but in reality, are so wrong. They slowly begin to collapse and we need to have the sensibility to change our direction to something with more stability.

Plan B has become far more significant, beneficial, and exciting. But here's the point: Don't rely on plan B either. Just plan to be surprised.

Using the compass instead of the itinerary. KL.