Day 1

Hello Readers
Or I should say, ‘reader’ since only one person can read this at a time, unless, I become so popular, people are crowding around the screen to read it. Highly unlikely.

So, reader, welcome to my blog. The first question you may ask is why did I name my blog Life’s Plan? The title of course is very cliché, overused, and seems to imply that it will give the reader some sort of direction in life.
-it will not. Sorry reader, this blog may fail to get you anywhere in life. I say this because, you need to get your own life and not follow my example through anything I do.

I named the blog because one of my roommates whom I do not know very well (this is a later story coming up) asked me, “What is your life plan?”

-what? Oh, my life plans. Yeah. What? I try taking life one day at a time. With that she asked or implied, “You don’t set goals.”

-well yes, and I didn’t say this back to her, but my goals and my life is my own. I wish I could tell you I did not let this affect me because I am a strong, confident person, who knows something will eventually come up. Obviously I’m not. So I have been thinking about this for about four hours.
-What is my life plan?

What a complicated question!

I do not have enough experience to say exactly what I would like to accomplish in my life. Plus, it was a very personal question. Few people are aware of my goals in life, in fact, maybe two other people know of them. Does this really matter?

-nope. I’d like to think life consists of a lot of downfalls and periods where doubt creeps in. Doubt has to exist, otherwise, how does anyone get anywhere in life? I could sit here and dwell on her question; where do I want to be in five years, what if I don’t get there, what do I like to do, what will people pay me to do, why don’t I have a job yet, when will I be triggered to jump forward, but where does any of that get me? I am not sure.

Walking through life one day at a time makes sense, but we live in such a ‘future’ driven world, the concept becomes more difficult by the second. Yet we could suddenly stop breathing, or get into an accident, and then where do we find ourselves?

One day at a time with a future in mind. This is how I like to think. Sometimes I’m too afraid to
think about the future because I’m content with the present. This is all right. People must linger in the present at times.

Currently, the ‘present’ is where I sit. I do my best, which is all I really can do to live in this world. So what if I don’t have a life plan. Life is already making its’ plan for me. I’m being tugged and looped into a series of events, people, paths, and decisions. I do not think I’ve hit my ‘trigger’ yet.

So you could say I’m waiting, what in the heck am I waiting here for? Let’s get going, let’s start life, let’s start saving money and building a house and planning trips.

How do I jump into that when I’m not sure I want that?

One day at a time with a future in mind,

Signing off for the afternoon,

E.Diehl