For he has better plans...

Hey my lovely friends!

Through my posts till now, you all might have observed that most of them include experiences from my life or from other peoples’ lives. This is because I feel that we can learn and absorb the learning better from the live examples. Here also, in today’s post I want to share a learning of mine through various examples of my own life.

We seem to plan a lot about our lives; some things go well according to the plan and some do not. The things that did not go parallel to our plans disappointed and sometimes even depressed us. Because that was what WE planned for OUR OWN GOOD and to succeed! But then, who plans to fail?? All of a sudden, a storm comes; something very different happens that was not there in that very PLAN of ours.

However, if we go back and compare what we planned with what actually happened, we seem to be relatively happier in our present conditions. And mind you! People who are happy with their present state are the ones who experience the presence of ALMIGHTY with them. We may question HIM, fight with HIM that why did HE not help fulfilling our plans but as the time passes and gradually HIS answer is revealed and we are convinced that HIS plans were better, rather THE BEST.

To elaborate my point, here is my story. Plans, plans and more plans were there in my mind as I saw my friends making plans for their future. One of them was planning to be a doctor, another and engineer and one was planning to be what her parents were planning her to be (duh!!). Lagging behind in my planning strategy, I chose to be a doctor (because one of the people who influenced me in school wanted to be one…humbug!!) also, I couldn't understand history and economics, so for me my favorite subject science was left and dream of becoming a doctor also became concrete (kind of). I toiled to clear the PMT (pre-medical test) day and night but couldn’t (no wonders) and took up Biotechnology as my subjects in Bachelors. It was kind of a compromise and also my so-called PLANS to be a doctor were crushed.  Gradually, I started enjoying studying biotechnology and my plan was now to be a BIOTECHNOLOGIST. Moreover, the term ‘biotechnologist’ itself charmed me than that lame, old-fashioned doctor (psst!!). I then did my Masters also in the same TERM and came back home BLANK for I did not have any idea which companies to apply for job. Therefore, to pass my time I joined this really nasty gymnasium somewhere near my house and tried very hard lose those extra kilos.

Guys, here came the turning point of my life (oh please, I did not lose weight and became a supermodel). I met this girl who offered me a job as a communication trainer in their institute which I joined to make some money. Viola!! All of a sudden, I was an independent rich girl with peanuts (my salary) in my pocket. Day by day, I started realizing that this is what makes me happy – meeting and interacting people from different walks of life (let me tell you all, I trained from school kids to police inspectors to HR managers and who not (chuckles)).

And now my heart was completely into training and public speaking and not at all in biotechnology.  I DID try after sometime in a few pharma and biotech firms but either their profiles didn’t interest me or sometimes they were not interested in an ancient biotechnological animal like me who did not have any updated knowledge of new researches. Hence, I stayed here (FIRM AND STRONG) as a soft skills trainer, motivational speaker, poet and writer. I realize it now that my potential could only be completely utilized as a trainer and not a biotechnologist. Now I am a constant learner and also an avid reader (as I mentioned in my earlier post). I have also worked as a copy editor where to pass an exam I could use my knowledge of those concepts that I learnt in the institute where I worked earlier. Here, I got the catch that everything in our life is interlinked. Now, I know why I failed in PMT and couldn’t pursue biotechnology as a career. Because HE wanted me to be happy and I AM happiest with this field that I am working in.

So you see why I don’t like to plan things? For my plans are always proved to be smaller than HIS. Hence, I love to go with the flow.

In the pics below, you can see me pursuing my passion and not plan - training and motivating.

Folks, my coming posts shall be the series of this one (Gosh! It is the era of sequels) where the point “his plans are greater” shall be elaborated more.

Till then, go with the flow

Love

Sonam