The Best Laid Plans...

We always have something to do. Some plan, some thing that we feel we gotta do no matter what. Our best instincts tell us we may be wrong, but we keep pushing forward, to make something happen.

This was me today. I was planning on doing something I thought was important. Something that I thought I needed to do in order to make myself more legitimate. To fulfill some weird need to be vetted into a society that I already barged into years ago...sometimes you gotta.

Anywho, I'm my own worst critic. In making a mistake, I feel I'm letting all those people down that I promised I'd succeed. What's important to realize is that everything we do is a step. It can be in one direction or the other. I believe there are no real mistakes. I'm just sayin', forgetting your drivers license ain't great but it can be the opportunity you needed to learn to check for it before you roll.

Everything we do or don't do is an opportunity for us to learn and to become enlightened. Enlightenment can come from anywhere. I get a lot tidbits from the most familiar yet unexpected places.

So the next time you feelin' some kinda way about something you would have done, could have done or should have done...the woulda, coulda, shouldas...cut yourself a break. Deep down inside, you know what's for you and whats not. Sometimes we just don't wanna listen.

In the movie After Earth, (I liked it...don't judge me) Will Smith's character said, "Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist; and "Danger is very real, but fear is a choice." I say to don't choose fear. Even the best laid plans may still need some adjusting. And don't stress...it's just a test.