HOPE springs eternal...
Today started off really well. I met a friend for coffee this morning, who I've been doing some mentoring with and encouraged him to do something he was afraid of doing. Do I know if he'll be successful? Not at all. But I believe he should try and we worked out a game plan for doing that. And I HOPE. :)
Then I met someone I've never met before for lunch. I was nervous, but they turned out to be a really genuine person, we had a nice time and I'm happy I faced my fear of meeting someone new.
Then everything went to shit.
After lunch, all the work, meetings, events I had carefully planned since last week, slowly unravelled. IT problems, incompetent help, missing tickets to the AGO and yes, even not enough space for everyone to sit around the table at dinner.
Isn't there some saying about the "best laid plans"?
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
He was Scottish. And lived in the 1700's. English Translation:
The best laid schemes of Mice and Men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Robert Burns knew what he was talking about. And not just a planned field trip with one of you boss' teams. Sometimes things go wrong in real life.
You HOPE that you're making the right choices. You HOPE your choices will work out, your parents will be proud, your friends will approve, and everything will be perfect.
But if it doesn't, is it really that you made wrong choices, or is it just the Universe telling you weren't where you were supposed to be in the first place? Telling you not to take it too seriously, because after a couple of pints, Stuart will love you again anyway. :)
I did everything "right" for a very long time in life. But maybe it was wrong.
They still have HOPE for me. But only if I go back, and change my opinions, go back on all the progress I've made. They "HOPE" I'll see the light, I'll be ok.
But I already am ok, all by myself. I believe in who I am, and that girl, she HOPEs for the best, but brings an umbrella. Because even if this morning is great, this afternoon could bring the shit storm.
"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling." - Morrie
We're all doing the best we can. We love, but we hurt too. All we can HOPE for, really, is that we "land on our feet".
The Bible says: "there remains, faith, HOPE, love, these three..."
The greatest of course, is Love. But HOPE is important too. Without it, where would we be? :)
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