Life Happens

Hello everyone, sorry that I have been away and behind on my monthly posts. I have only one thing to say to excuse myself, life happens.

Over the past few weeks, life once again threw me a curve ball and a few unexpected twists. The job that I had been working, announced that it was shutting down at the end of the year. I can't afford to be unemployed, so I got another job.

As I closed the chapter on my old job and began my new chapter at my new job, I also threw in a new writing class, that I take each week at the local College.

I'm guessing, sometimes, I over challenge myself and my brain. I had not planned on changing jobs, I loved the one that I had. I had not planned on many things that have happened in my life, but things happen.

I've always admired people that can plan their lives out to the tee and actually make it happen.  You know the ones; that say at 15 years old, by the time they are 20, they will be in College, then actually do it.

They have a time line of their life all mapped out and nail every mark. Married at this age, children at that age and so forth and so on.

I'm so not one of those people! I wish at times that I could be, I obviously just wasn't meant to be. In my young teen years, I would day dream about what my adult life would be like. As most young teen kids do.

I thought that I would be a famous Romance Novelist, traveling the world, in my twenties. I planned that when I had- had kids, I would have the perfect husband and the perfect house, with a white picket fence of course.

Then life dealt me a different set of cards and I learned the hard way, there is no such thing as perfect. Not everything will go the way you plan and as far as me having the perfect husband....as I said I learned there was no such thing as perfect.

The young version of me, never saw myself as being the perfect wife and stay at home mom. I guess that may have been one reason, I never was.

Don't get me wrong, I love planning things. It's just that some things in life, come out way different then I visioned them to. In some cases, I'm glad that they didn't, I wouldn't be who I am today if they would have.

So when you get frustrated or disappointed, because life isn't going the way that you had intended, stop and remind yourself, life happens.

Nobody can be certain of how life will go, we aren't supposed to know. It's why it's called life, it's full of highs, lows, love, laughter, disappointment and devastation, it's why it's called life and it will happen.

We can't control everything in life, we weren't meant to. Keep making them plans, setting them life goals and writing them bucket lists. If life throws you a curve ball, maybe it's just making us write another plan.

Everyone have a good month!

Bobbie
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