The Rivalry / Less of the Last 4 Months

Recently two of my peers, named Brian Carr and Adam Schuch, started their own blog called produmption. The concept behind their blog is that each time they drop a log, they drop a blog too. To me, the concept is brilliant. However, they chose not to include me so I'm afraid I'm going to have to get back in the blogging game in order to compete with the men of "Produmption"

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Lesson of the last 4 months.

A lot has happened it 4 months. Plans made and plans broken, relationships grown and relationships destroyed. Time moves fast, but life moves faster.

As humans, I believe we are predisposed to failure. Let's be honest, how often do our plans actually come to fruition? How often are we exactly where we want to be? How often are we content? We shouldn't be surprised or disheartened when our plans fail, rather, we should be surprised when our plans don't fail.

In grade school I was programmed to believe that life goes in this exact order:

(A) --> Graduate High School-->(B) Go to, and graduate, college -->(C) Get a job right away to make that starting salary of $60,000-->(D) Married--->(E)--> Kids-->(F) Death.

We feel our lives are meant to be a linear ascendancy of progress. A goes to B and to C and so on. However, if you've passed step "A" or "B", you've probably realized that life does not work this way. The problem with this equation is that there is no room to factor in for the variable "X". Think of X as the real life variable, reality if you will.

Graduate High School--> Graduate College --> (C)Get A Job--->(X) Get laid off.
(B)Graduate College --> (X) Never get a job
(D)Get Married --> (X) Get Divorced
(E)Kids --> (X) Miscarriage

There are too many variables and outside circumstances to believe that its possible to live a linear life.

I prefer to think of life as walking through a dense forest. There are some trails that you can follow, but you can be mislead down a bad path, you can get lost, you can walk in circle, or you can get mauled by a bear. That's what life is like, were walking and we don't always know where were going, but were all trying to get out of the woods, its just a matter of what paths we choose take to get there.

Am I on the right trail in my life? Am I going to have to do some back tracking? Am I going to get mauled by a bear? I don't know, but I do know that when we find our own way through the forest, we will be stronger, smarter, wiser, and ready to guide others through the dense forest.