Somewhere in the quietness of my mind, I remembered how I planned my life. The life I planned was a far cry from what I live right now. I planned a life free from worries and frivolities of now.

I was young and free when I had my life planned ahead of me. I was a Journalist in my planned life. Marriage was never part of it. I owned mansions in my planned life.

Children were never part of it, despite my love for little children, I didn’t see any from my loin. I was a career woman whose trade took to any part of the world, to whom children would be a hindrance.

I planned a life far from what I experience as a child. A life free from poverty and maltreatment. I never planned to fall in love, this was for the weak and helpless. I grew up seeing maltreatment from menfolk and I planned never to be a victim.

Planning life was easier back then. All I did was look around, read books, blockbusters and concluded on what I wanted. I had a book where I noted my achievements. For a while, it worked according to plan until life happened.

My Life Now

I am not a professor nor a journalist neither do I earn enough to match up with my fantasy. I am a mother of 3, I found myself a man whom I married despite the hurdles of marital life.

Learning to make life work is not easy, I have learnt and still learning how to make my life worth living. This is not about money or luxurious living, it is about living a meaningful life.

Part of life is struggling to make ends meet. I have tried and still trying to unlock the door of success. My life is far from what I planned in my little book as a young girl. My life is what my life is.

Sometimes I look back and wished a fragment of these fantasies could be real, but then, I wouldn’t change any of the experiences I have now for the world. I have wept and waited. Longed and wished. Sought and sought. These are part of my life. I am learning to improve myself and what I have in my life.

I don’t know how you planned your life. I don’t know if things are working according to what you planned, but, I know there’s always room for improvement.

I wouldn’t have met the people I know today if life was the way I planned it. I wouldn’t have known the things I knew today and definitely won’t be writing this if things went according to plan.

Life has provided me with considerable empirical evidence to support the fact that my life now is how my life should be. Mistakes and lesson learnt are all part of life.

Life, whether planned or not, will end at a point in time. If this is a fact and that death is inevitable, why not just make your life worth living. Keep planning and keep making positive changes. Changes that make impacts no matter how little, after all, we all gonna be history one day.

Life is worth living no matter the outcome of your plans.