Planning my life

I have heard that some people plan their life ahead. At 20 they know where they are at 50. As admiring that is, making plans for the future has not worked out that well for me. You see, if I could have decided myself, my life would have turned out differently.

But, looking back, I would have lost wonderful experiences if my original plans would have taken place. Maybe I would have ended up where I am anyway... Hard to say, as I don't believe in "what ifs". There's no point in them. I believe that there's lots of truth in John Lennon's words: "Life is what happends to you while you were busy making plans".

Still, I have decided that I'm going to do a life plan for myself. One year plan, five year plan and maybe also a ten year plan. I don't think that there's any harm in setting goals for oneself and then work hard to make them come true. After all, goals are dreams with deadline.

I have decided that my one year plan will have more specific details, you know, do this/finish that by that month. But five year plan and ten year plan are more general ones, with basic plans and goals I'm going to achieve. And naturally I plan to evaluate my plans regularly to see where I'm going. Sounds like a good plan to me.