In between ‘Planning’ happens Life….

 

Sometimes you feel like doing a lot of things.

And if you have attended one of those capacity building conferences, you will definitely decide to plan your each step.

For the expert says: “the goal will continue to remain distant unless you plan.”

Thoroughly motivated, I decide to plan…

I shut myself away from everything and I plan…

I make daily planner, weekly planner, monthly planner, annual planner and many other planners on my drive and forget most of the planners barring the basic ones.

I feel as if I am almost there.

Then one fine morning, I find myself sitting and blinking at the wall, doing nothing.

After a couple of days, I look at my petrified self and say “Why don’t you just get out of the house and get some fresh air.”

“Yes, you’re right, ” I say.

Soon, I get out of the house, attend the evening mass.

After that, I immerse myself in the all pervading silence of the church.

I light candles.

Have my little conversation with the Jewish Carpenter.

Then sit under the shade of a large Mango tree in the compound of the church.

Walk home on a well lit road.

Sometimes, I look at the sky.

And pass a flower shop effusing the fragrance of jasmine flowers.

Come back and make dinner.

Read a few pages, type a blog post and pitch a new story idea.

And there I am… fast asleep.

Next morning, I wake up, pray and make my bed.

Then I tick mark the things I did the previous night, holding a cup of brewing coffee in the other hand.

And I realise these little pleasures which we conveniently brush aside while planning a larger picture makes real life.

- Shalet Jimmy💖