CHANGE OF PLAN

None of us can predict what the new day has in store for us. Having a routine and leaving a little room for the unexpected allows you to adjust to both the unexpected problems and the possibilities which may be coming your way. Life teaches us that even when things seem relatively normal, suddenly you, or someone near you, might find yourself dodging some unexpected curve in the road.

Yesterday for example, was a fairly normal day. Personally, I did not have any particular or urgent problems. Among other things I got a haircut, which as most women know, usually helps you look better and translated for females into feeling better too.

When I saw a friend passing by the café I was in, I made a point of talking to him and asking about our mutual friend who is undergoing Cancer treatments at this time.

  

Meanwhile, my own situation was not giving me big problems and the rest of my day involved a fairly mundane and routine day, such as congratulating my nieces on their graduation day tomorrow and checking that my cards to them arrived. The day ended with doing a large laundry.

So, you wake up today and things again seem relatively normal. We all know the routine, stagger out of bed, make a coffee, look at what we have to get done today and plan to go to the bank as well, both to pay a bill and get some cash for the upcoming long weekend.

A call to a friend to make plans for a get together causes us to have to check for which day we are meeting someone else for our appointment with them. The second person tells us his wife had a mild heart attack last Sunday and hadn’t wanted any phone calls right away. Also, their car just broke down last night and needs repairs. Our meeting with them will be delayed.

Your normal day is slightly changed. However, their days have not been ‘normal’ for a week. Any plans you were making with them have to go on hold. Their situation is obviously more serious, as was that of your friend in treatment.

The point is, whatever you expect might be happening today or tomorrow, you will be able to accommodate them better life leave some room for the ‘change of plans’, life may require of you.

The changes are not always in response to some emergency, it is just being realistic and leaving a bit of time for what comes up unexpectedly in your day. Then, when you have a change in your plans it does not cause quite as much upset as it might if you didn’t have any flexibility and were solidly loaded down from morning till night.

P.S. And then tonight, a friend says that she has just learned she had a ‘silent’ heart attack at some point. As I said, it started as a normal day for me…but life takes off and goes on all around us. Best to leave some room for the unexpected, so it doesn’t throw you too far off kilter.