Making Plans and Being Ready to Change Them

 Published: Sep 3, 2022 | Revised: Apr 29, 2024

Making Plans and Being Ready to Change Them

“Living means, from moment to moment, never knowing whether the next moment is going to bring peace, pleasure or pain.”

— Ramesh Balsekar —

The essence of a good plan is that it’s ready to adapt to changes. A good plan, an excellent plan, is always ready for “Plan B,” making it a changed plan.

Nevertheless, when it comes to life and living it, Plan B seems to be unknown, without fail challenging Plan A. Plan B is there always, but without us having any knowledge of its content. Plan B is the unexpected, and moreover — coming unexpectedly.

Today then, my Plan A includes the possibility becoming Plan B at any moment, and moreover, Plan B is perhaps my real plan. The plan for me, and one I actually have no knowledge of.

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I’ve seen also that making efforts to realize Plan A very often opens the door to stepping into Plan B. Plan A then, was in reality the initiator to uncover the veiled substance of “the real plan.”

When I came to accept that perhaps only Plan B is my real plan, it subsequently made me stop sincerely planning Plan A. I admit that the habit is still there, but I don’t seem to be able to actually construct a plausible Plan A any longer.

Plan B then means, just as Ramesh Balsekar claims, from moment to moment, never knowing whether the next moment is going to bring peace, pleasure or pain. And if I don’t know, and if I’m not able to know, what else than to accept what-is, and live life living it as it presents itself?

I suppose that when Plan A becomes Plan B, and through that, Plan B becomes Plan A, I can at least accept Plan B being my new Plan A, which in its turn will be cast off by another Plan B anyway.

You see, I believe that a good plan is one that adapts to changes. A good plan, an excellent plan, is always ready for Plan B becoming Plan A, repeatedly. It so seems that the only good plan is a plan that changes continually. Just like life does.




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