Having No Plan

Summer vacation is near..again. Weeks and even months earlier I already heard my friends & colleagues marking their diaries for some getaways.  Some will go to the beach while others will just visit their families at province.

And so I ask myself. What are my plans for the vacation? And the answer is: I have none. That is me. I don’t make plans. I like nothing better than waking up on a Saturday morning with no definite plans and then just seeing what the day brings.

Yes, most of my gimmicks, engagements and undertakings were done unplanned. Some turned-out great, some went okay and others didn't.

Don’t get me wrong, I pretty much know the benefit of having plans. Planning is preparing and it’s like having directions. But come to think of it, sometimes we are so busy filling our diary that we forget to enjoy what’s around us. Remember we’re already living our life while we are busy making other plans. Just imagine how much you could miss while hectically preparing and thinking for your future ~ because it is already a real life going on there.

I am a human being and not a human doing. So I let my life surprise me by surprising myself first – I’ll never do advance and mass planning. Where others are ‘busy’ I am ‘free’ to do anything, go anywhere, meet anyone and spend anytime I want…I am unrestricted.

In that way I become a real simple person.