Reader question:
"What does this - Life is what happens to us when we're making other plans - mean?"
My comments:
This is a remark attributed to Beatles star John Lennon, who said: "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Lennon is long dead, but, relevant to us today, what he said remains an apt description of career-driven, goal-chasing men and women in the city.
Have you ever heard someone say they'll be happy if they "have a car"? Then they have a car but say they'll really be happy if they have a bigger one.
In a similar vein, they say they'll be happy if they have an apartment, a better job, a beautiful mate, a million dollars, and so forth ad infinitum.
Or, does this sound like you and me?
Anyway, people who think this way are usually making great plans for themselves. They are those who often have trouble having a good time. They may have better plans but plans, you see, are inevitably for the future. People who have their eyes and minds fixed upon the future are prone to be absent-minded about what's going on now. What's going on NOW is life. This is it.
This is real. The future isn't. People who seriously plan for the future are often disappointed, even if their goals are met because they then have greater goals.
Most of the time, however, their goals are not even met. Their plans don't work. Have you ever heard of this grandma-style advice: If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans? In other words, God has plans for you and his plans always beat yours.
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