I apologize in advance if this post is kind of vague.
I feel like we all have plans for our lives. They change often and most of the time are nothing like what life turns out like. These plans can be small, like the college we see ourselves going to and then the reality of where we go. They can be bigger, like the kind of person you think you will grow up to be and the kind of career you want to have and the reality that neither of those things turn out to be like you want it. Then there are the kind of plans that are a little more vague. You want a big house in the city, 3 kids, and a picket fence. Well life isn’t picket fences. Plans change. Plans go awry. Life lets you down. Life surprises you and surprises the plans you thought you had for, not only yourself but for your family.
Life is not always easy but sometimes the best laid plans that go awry are just the thing we needed to snap us back into reality and reevaluate what we want, who we are, and what we saw our lives becoming.
No nothing horrible or crazy has happened to me, Andrew, our family etc. I was just recently thinking of what I saw my life like at 18. How in 13 years my life is nothing like I thought it would look like. How even when I look back 10 years, 5 years, etc, it has gone a very different way than I expected. The plans I had, and the plans I thought I wanted, are not at all what my life looks like.
But you know what, it is absolutely beautiful the way it is.
My life is so different than what I thought it would be when I was a teenager, but I’m like you, I wouldn’t change anything.
Truer words were never spoken. I would’ve never imagined my life being the way it is now – so many bad things happened in the last few years, yet overall I’m doing okay. I don’t think I could’ve dealt with all of it were I in my teens or 20s, but life sure has a way of switching things up when you least expect it – and in the process teach you a life lesson or two.
I never could have imagined the series of horrific events that happened to me in the last few years. My entire family wiped out by cancer, financial devastation and terribly cruel people causing so much pain and stealing my well being as well as my money. Life can be beautiful for some and extremely cruel to others for years on end.i am glad you have a beautiful life. The beauty of life is where it takes you far away from any plan.
wow wow wow I could not agree more! If I look back at what I thought my life would be 15, 10, or even 5 years ago….I think I might be shocked at who I am today. I’m totally a different person and in a different place than what I would have expected (or thought I wanted). I would not recognize myself. To be honest, and I’m not tooting my own horn at all, I think I’m a much better person than I probably would have been had the plans I thought I wanted for myself worked out. This life thing is so cra cra sometimes 🙂
time runs so quickly now and it does end up differently- but that’s not a bad thing. totally get it!
Elle
Southern Elle Style
Completely agree! My life looks nothing like I thought but it’s oh so beautiful!
Preach it girl, my life is NOTHING like I planned 🙂 but I would NOT change it for the world! 🙂