The way we want it.

Have you ever wondered, or given a thought to how things never work out the way we want them to. Remember how as a kid, we wanted that particular ice-cream of that particular flavor from that particular shop? And remember how we never got that? And when years later we could get any flavor ice cream from any shop, it hardly ever mattered to us. Why is it that the world's sweetest pleasures are the ones you cannot get? And why is it that when you can finally get that something you've always wanted, it is not so great anymore?

Over the years, I have learnt that things work out best in life when they are unplanned. But before that, I must mention again, how things never work out the way we plan them out in our minds from (much, perhaps) before hand. The perfect plan. It can be for anything. Say, a date. Or a lecture. A speech maybe. A regular class at school or college, or at tuition, where you want to impress that cute guy or girl you've recently developed a crush on. Or it can be simply meeting someone special. And we hope, pray with all our heart, that it all works out just the way we planned it. Act by act. Including the reaction from the other person(s). It's right there, all worked out in our mind. But when the time finally comes - poof! The bubble you had so perfectly created in your mind bursts. You don't say the words to your crush which you had so perfectly played out in your mind, or it doesn't invoke the kind of reaction you had expected. And sooner than you know it, one by one, the whole plan comes crashing down. The speech is forgotten. You don't come across as that smart or funny as you had intended to. It's all gone wrong, almost every bit of it. You realize sooner than later that nothing ever really works out as you planned it. Not even one bit. That's when you just leave it to Fate. Let whatever is bound to happen, happen.

And then.
Comes the miracle.

Something happens. Something simple, yet wonderful. A smile from that cute guy or girl, those amazing words you just tell your date impromptu without having thought of them earlier, maybe a funny line you hadn't thought of earlier, or a witty remark in your forgotten speech, or that remarkably simple way to explain your theory to the class which hadn't struck you earlier. These were, put in simple words, things which were never part of the plan. Yet, they were the best that could have happened.

It's true. The most beautiful things in Life are the unplanned ones. And I can say that so firmly because it has happened to me so many times. In fact, time and again, every single time I have planned out my actions. Therefore I have stopped planning my life. I leave it totally on Fate and allow my life to take it's own course without giving it much thought. And this by far has been one of the best decisions I have taken.

We often tend to think it would have been really nice that if this particular thing happened to us, or if our life had been that way, like that lucky guy there who "has everything one can ask for". But that is not how life works. It is not some story you have already written that you are living. Life never really gives you what you want. But it always gives you something better. The most wonderful of things happen when you least expect it.

Life is a mystery.
And it is this mystery that makes it the most wonderful thing in the world.