We spend our lives planning, and planning, and as someone once told me...it ends up that life is what happens when you're busy making plans. We spend our time imagining what we want our lives to be, what we expect, what we wish and hope for, but there's only so much one can do to make that happen. As much as I believe I am in control of my life, and what happens in it, and how the choices I make create my own experience, we are creatures living in a precarious world, where hurricanes happen, where death happens, where all sorts of things happen to shake us up and either move us stronger in the direction we were going in, or plant us on a completely different road.
These days more than ever, I am determined to take control of my life and at the same time open to letting it take me to the surprising places it does, but all I can do is my part, right?
It seems that everything that has been ocurring in my life has been so apropo. The short film I was just cast in. The play I am writing. The conversations i had in December. The wonderful trip I took with my family to New York. The answers I give to people who ask me when I am getting married. The role I am playing in San Jose. The plans I have been making....
I just wish the balance the Universe is causing wasn't so close to home....
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans" is a quote from John Lennon, BTW, from his song "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" off "Double Fantasy."
I love that album. I recently took a walk in Strawberry Fields - a place dedicated to John Lennon in Central Park directly across from the Dakota - the building where he lived.
Opportunities like this is why I LOVE living in Manhattan.
Thats the someone who told me.
How cyclical.
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