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| Word count: 757 Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. -John Lennon It was difficult picking the saying I wanted to use for this challenge. I am not someone who puts my life out there for everyone to gawk at. So many of the choices would require too much personal information to be passed around. I had a relatively easy beginning in life. I grew up on a farm but didn’t have a lot of chores, basically only the ones I choose to do. Although I had two brothers and a sister, I was the oldest and spent very little time with them. Because of this, I became an introvert. I knew how to act with adults but not with people my own age. At an early age, I could plan a proper Tea Party and Garden Party. Lucky me. My childhood dreams and plans for my future consisted of being an astronaut, a writer, a wife, a mother, and owning my own hotel. My ideas of what these possible professions required came from books and what I learned in the months I was in school. We moved to Florida when I was 13 and I found out what was going on in the real world. Don’t get me wrong not all of my dreams changed. Life kept moving forward. I started working on my dream plans seriously, in High School. I took all the courses I would need such as Science and Math. I even trudged through Latin because it is the basis of most of the Scientific and Mathematical terms. Latin was not easy. I figure the only reason I passed was that they needed the desk for the next year's students. When my major league college plans fell through, I switched to thinking about what I would need in business. Junior College offered what I could afford. I focused on secretarial duties and accounting possibilities. Accounting was a lot easier than Latin. One hitch was shorthand. Attempting to learn shorthand only strengthened the knowledge I am not proficient and will never be proficient at anything requiring a different way of expression which is not plain English. Life gave me a man to love and the pendulum of life swung in a different direction. Yes, I still found something to study, (always learning something new is a necessity in my life). Planning became figuring out how to work (two paychecks were needed in the world of the recession) and taking care of the needs of my family. I loved my husband dearly, but he was not much of a hands-on type of person. He worked and did what he considered fatherly things, but in the world, I flourished in, the woman took care of home and hearth. Plans needed to be put in effect to get through the days. It was my responsibility (and I admit looking back on the time, I took a lot on myself which I could have delegated out) to make sure the three children made it to school, to sports practice, get their homework done, baths, and family chores. Luckily my husband loved to cook, so meals were contrived by him for the most part. Still, life moved forward, swirly around the edges of my accomplishments, setbacks, and plans. The children were growing and attempting to spread their wings. My husband started to get disability because of problems he suffered in Vietnam. Attempting to keep planning a life the children could thrive in and still keep my sanity, because almost impossible. My husband moved us from the city to rural America to help with his anxiety and to give the children a better atmosphere to grow up in. My planning started to include the plans for grown children. Their lives swirled into the mix of my life. I still tried to make writing a strong point. The fanciful days of living in a big way, traveling, meeting interesting people, and experiencing out-of-this-world times floated off on clouds, evaporating over the horizon of age. Life never gave up though. It still allowed me to trudge through, many ponds of quicksand. It constructed an occasional bridge, some very rickety, to let me keep my proverbial feet dry. Life let me make plans with some hope of being able to check things off the list, now and again. I recommend for most people's sanity, they cut back on planning and work with what is in front of them. Save your planning for a possible Bucket List of hopes and dreams for the future. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
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This is a lovely share with some wise advice at the end. And it fits the prompt well! Thanks for sharing your experience.
