But I Made Other Plans!
Thought of the Day:
“Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.”
Plautus
Thinking Outside of the Box:
Kind of reminds you of “Life is what happens when you are making other plans,” doesn’t it? Plautus lived 250 years before Christ, and yet it seems that life hasn’t changed all that much. But in all reality, would we want to have it expected and planned out? Most people think not when really pushed to the wall. I sometimes find it surprising because the really surprising stuff, isn’t always such good stuff. Wouldn’t it be nice to circumvent those tragedies and losses in our lives? Wouldn’t it be nice to know that when you walked out your front door today, the bottom of the world wouldn’t drop out? Now, it probably won’t. It seldom does and you most likely have higher odds of winning the lottery. But when it does, a little less surprise and a little more routine seems inviting.
Perhaps it is a mindset. Like Plautus said above, these things happen more often than we wish, but I think what he was getting at was not that bad things happen to good people too often. I think what he was saying was that if we dwell on the negative too much, we will see only that the negative things happen a little too often for our liking. Perhaps if we viewed the surprising and wonderful things as being our unexpected events that happen more frequently than we thought possible, more good things would happen.
I don’t know. That is a subject that is for philosophers and theologians. Perhaps for poets as well.
There are days though, when I could use a little more predictability and a few less surprises!
Some Last Thoughts:
“Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well.”
Danish Proverb
“I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.”
James Matthew Barrie
“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”
Ashleigh Brilliant
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