Must you Plan?

With structure there is predictability, 

With predictability, there is certainty...

But structures break, 

Just the way they are made. 

And like water trapped in a dam,

Everything flows. 

It must! Reluctantly or gracefully.

Calmly, or forcefully. 

But it must mold as per the needs of circumstances. 

Plans, Plans, Plans. I have a plan for this.I have a plan for that. I have a plan for everything. But sometimes, my plans fail. And with age, I've learned that everything cannot be planned. And that there is a rhythm to life that needs to be heard. If plans are inconsistent with the rhythm - they often fail. Hear that rhythm! It has volumes to tell you. Hear it out and trust it.

In this materialistic world, we sometimes aim to achieve things that aren't meant for us. We strive to live a life not meant for us. We push, and we push a little harder until everything is in place and there is a flow... But the minute we stop pushing, things fall... apart. All the plans you've ever made crumble. All the dreams you've ever had are not at all desirable anymore. It's seems like a halt. A painful one.

In reality, it's a start to something new. It's a wake-up call. "Hey! I'm life. Listen to me... this is what you think you wanted and needed. Turns out, you ain't too happy. Just flow with me and I'll show you what you really want and need - your true happiness" and when that call comes... follow it. Be accepting towards it. Embrace it... for if you don't, it will drag you anyways. The more resistant you are, the harder it will be to feel the happiness hitting you on your face. The welcoming you are, the more overwhelmed you will be with happiness. Each day is to look forward to, rather than dread.

If you already have a life where you are living from the heart, I'm glad you know your life's rhythm. And if you are living a life you dread, I hope you hear the wake-up call - and make the changes you need. Listen to that rhythm - it's screaming to be heard.

Plans are great tools, but they are just tools. They help you to guide your life, not to dictate how things should go. Leave some loopholes in them, and let time fill them. Because when the time is right, things arrive and circumstances arise - some good, some bad - and they will change you and your life for better or worse. That depends on how you choose to view it. With synchrodestiny working, there are things bound to happen and sometimes we stop them by intensive planning - so then, they just barge in to our lives and destroy the plans. Eventually, we just work our way through them. And if we must do that anyways, why don't we just let them in and cherish the changes?

The Dirty Play of Cross-roads...

Life is a strange journey and in this journey we are sometimes brought to a cross-road. Which direction do we choose? left or right? Rather, what decision do we make?

Some believe in fate and other's believe in free-will, there are also people who believe in synchronicity - that fate and free-will are intertwined and make a destiny. Does it matter what you believe in when your standing on a cross-road? Yes, the concept of free-will gives the perception of freedom and security that if you don't like the decision you have made, you can always change it. On the other hand, the concept of fate gives you a relief that whatever will happen is planned for your own benefit. And when you believe in synchronicity, you can take refuge that fate will guide you to make decisions with your own free will for your own benefit. But that's all they do, they don't make the decision for you.

Besides, you can't leave everything to fate - because then you would be doing nothing. Neither can you believe in free will a 100% because things don't always go as planned. So what do you do when you are at a cross-road, when you have to make a decision?

The mind is but a dirty play, jumping from one end to the other. Seducing you to choose one and when you decide to choose it, it lures you to the other. They say once bitten, twice shy but the mind never stops playing its games and we never stop heeding it. We get caught up in these games so much that we fail to realize how shallow they make us with worry.

It is often said listen to your heart rather than your head because often your heart already knows what you want. And your intuition already knows what's going to happen. They say there is a difference between the head and the heart's voice and when you are calm you can differentiate between them. But how do you differentiate between it when your mind is in a turmoil?

I close my eyes and say "what does my head think about ......" and then take a break and say "what does my heart say about...." and I get my answers and hopefully you shall get yours as well.

But how do we really know that's what our hearts really want? What if its the wrong decision? Well, once you've made a decision trust synchronicity, fate, destiny, free-will to make it work for you. If it's not meant to be, it won't happen. If it is, it will. If it goes well, you have a success. If it goes wrong, you have lesson.

We always learn from everything in life whether we realize it or not. And these cross-roads are blessings in disguise as little obstacles. They can only help you grow wiser. So accept that you have a choice, but also accept that you can't control everything every time.