Things Don’t Always Go As We Plan
On Monday I wrote a post for this blog and saved it. I wasn’t quite finished and wanted to return later to jazz it up a bit. Okay, maybe my posts aren’t exactly jazzy. Maybe I just wanted to make it presentable. Anyway when I returned to the computer the post was no where to be found. That’s an awful, sinking feeling. It’s happened to me more than once. The worse case was when I lost an entire 50 page chapter of my dissertation and had to rewrite the entire thing!
Then on Tuesday of this week I got in my car to go to Miami, OK for a meeting–sorry, no beaches in this Miami. I actually had two meetings scheduled that day in two different parts of the state. (No I don’t schedule these meetings. Someone else does.) I couldn’t attend both so I chose the Miami meeting and left the house at the correct time to arrive at the appointed hour. On the way, the director of the project in Miami called me to let me know the meeting had been cancelled due to flooding. (We’ve had a lot of rain here in Oklahoma, lately). So plans changed. I headed to my other meeting which I arrived at late. I felt like a fool walking into the meeting just as the chair was saying “We’re adjourned.”
Yesterday, my wife and I spent the day talking about how we are going to re-do one of our bathrooms. It’s an agonizing process involving paint colors, faucet finishes, and mirror styles. We finally decided on a mirror we liked at one of the local home improvement stores. Unfortunately, they didn’t have any more like the one on display. So we drove to another store several miles away only to discover they didn’t have that one either. Finally, I ended up back at the original store begging the poor sales lady to let me have the one on display. I looked pathetic enough and she agreed.
Things don’t always go as we plan. Here are three mis-haps in three days. I can’t wait to see what today holds. Perhaps that’s the attitude we should take. Expect them. Embrace them. Find a way to enjoy the diversion from the routine. If we always expect everything to go as we plan, then we will continually be disappointed and bitter with life. On the other hand, if we anticipate the unexpected and learn to change course, think of all the new territory we will cover and the new adventures we’ll have–adventures that will enrich our lives.
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