Why I’m Saying “Yes”
And not making plans
“The most important lesson I learned,” I told my eight-year-old daughter a few weeks ago, “is that you never know what’s going to happen in life.”
“What do you mean?” she asked, looking perplexed in light of my words of wisdom, reminding me of how little I know.
“You can make all the plans in the world but never know what is going to happen,” this seemed to make more sense to her, so I went on, “So, the fun in life is that everything can be different in the future.”
Wisdom?
I don’t usually make grand pronouncements about life, but perhaps in the wake of turning 49, I feel a little more confident about making sweeping generalizations. Maybe, just maybe, my Gen X self is a bit wiser among the deepening of the lines on my face. (“Mommy, I love you even if you are old and wrinkly” was part of another conversation with my daughter!)
I can’t help but think of the lyric by John Lennon:
Before you cross the street, take my hand. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
I thought about this idea that life is not about making plans because we only have so much control over them anyway when I was reading about the science of manifesting. The…
