Rolling with the Punches

Everyone makes plans in their lives. Whether it be a simple plan to get together on a Friday night or a long term plan like saving money to buy a house. One of my biggest problems is learning to deal with things not going according to my plans. I hate when people cancel on me; I very rarely cancel on anyone if its in any way avoidable. I just hate planning something out in my head and having everything turn out completely different. I stress myself out way to much and anyone who knows me can testify to that.

Timothy and I have a lot of plans for our future. We have a lot of things we have to save money for and a lot of things we need to accomplish. We both work very hard at full time jobs, I'm continuing with school in the fall and he's working on getting his CDL. Our plan is to save up $20,000 for a down payment on a house. This was going to be accomplished in 2 years but now that may not happen. If we do end up having to get our own place and save at the same time it will take 5 years to accomplish this. So as you can probably guess this is stressing me out immensly.

I have to just keep telling myself that we're still young and we have time, but in todays society we're being told to save save save for everything and that you're never to young to start. We don't technically need to have a house until we have kids, which wont be until im about 30, but it was just something I really got my hopes up for. I imagined myself decorating everything exactly the way I wanted it. Coming home to a place that was mine. So I guess that's why I get so disappointed when plans fall through. I let myself get my hopes up. I paint a picture in my head and I get way too excited.

The reality is that things rarely work out the way you plan them. That you need to be prepared for there to be bumps and twists in the road. The only person you can control is yourself and when other people are added into the equation anything can and will happen. No matter how hard you work to build something, there's always a possibilty that a tornado will come and blow it down in a matter of moments.

The only thing to do is just keep on working as hard as I can and as long as I have my Timothy by my side everything is going to be just fine.