Living Life As It Is...

There is a quote that is often attributed to John Lennon, but I believe that it actually comes from a 1957 comic strip in Readers Digest. It posits, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

If we were to consider this statement for a moment, we might come to realize that we plan our lives on the basis of expectations. For example, we go to school in order to get great grades. This, in turn, should aid us in getting into the best college, which should therefore lead us to the best jobs with an excellent salary, so that our social lives will improve and put us into circles where we would find a spouse and ultimately build a beautiful family and live happily ever after.

This is what most of us plan.

This is what we expect.

But life happens…and we change.

Yet, as we change, some of us cling to the ideas and notions of who we thought we were and overlook the person we’ve become. Thus we’re unable to live a life that is fulfilling and in the moment and that’s authentic.

In the way, it is important to remind yourself to always push forward and limit the longing for looking back to our expectations or for the “good old days” that never were.

There's a lot to be said about living life as it is instead of how I wish it to be.

Until next Monday...