Dancing in the Rain

[off topic] I just found a post of Thomas Sinfield about how to review a blog and I find it interesting. Even if I am not a reviewer, I can watch those tips and learn from them. I thought it might be useful to all of the reviewers and bloggers.[/off-topic]

At the end of last year I had a conversation with a friend of mine about planning. I’ve been complaining about the fact that I never make plans for myself, because I know I can never make it the way I planned. There is always something that comes up and have to be done before, or sometimes I just realize that I don’t need to do the thing that I’ve been planning, because it’s worthless.

When I was a teenager(not too long ago) I always decided to go in a camp in the last moments. The trip ideas always come in a few minutes, so we pack and go. Of course, there were a few camps where I was quite forced to go, but most of the time I made the decisions in the last weeks. There was always a place for a new person in those camps.

Most of the trips and camps, where I’ve decided to go in the last few moments, were the best ones ever. Because I never made big plans, I never imagined myself how will be if I do this or that, I didn’t had expectations so it couldn’t be bad.

This is the way I always try to be positive: no plans, so no expectations, so most of the time happy.

I said “most of the time”, because I can be very easily influenced by other people and believe that the way they see their similar problems to mine, is the way I see my problems too. So the way they see their solutions to their problems, is the way I should see my solutions too. And these people are so depressive.

But they just want to make others to feel bad for them. And this is when I say “Bye-bye! I have to go! My boyfriend/mum/cat/imaginary-friend(lol) is waiting for me.” . It’s easy to recognize them, but in my bad days(at that time of the month) I really believe them.

And I said “most of the time”, because I actually have those large plans which are extended for a few years(like in 2009 finding a real job to get experience, in 2010 start a full-time job). But I can change them. So I don’t feel like I would be locked in a room and I don’t have the key to get out. Because I know the door is open.

And there are nights when I make a little plan for the next day, so I don’t forget what is very important to do.

I’ll leave you a video by Randy Pausch about Time Management. You will learn lots of things from this video, at least I did.