When Even The Plan of No Plans Becomes a Non-Plan
"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley." - Robert Burns The above quote is one I have returned to often in the past four years. I am an obsessive planner, and I often have to remind myself not to count on the world aligning with my latest schemes. (Which I suppose brings me to another similar quote by John Lennon. " Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans ." My last post was a long rambling beast about how I was going to deal with the situation of having nothing new to do in 2024. It was such a beast I can't imagine anyone read it to the end (although as of writing this post, it has 34 views). The TL:DR of the post was I had nothing exceptional to look forward to. Life was a big blank slate. I had no plan. I was going to have to learn to embrace uncertainty and take life as it comes. My path was to simply live one day at a time and take the best possible care of myself. I would be mindful, be healthy, exercise and...