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I was thinking about the old saying 'life is what happens while you're busy making plans' today.  It's kind of interesting how true this feels to me and I was wondering why that is and what makes it feel that way.  As an avid Alan Watts enthusiast and appreciator of the "anti-religion" of fundamental Buddhism, I often reflect on the concept of allowing the universe to exist and realizing that I am part of that universe.  It takes a lot of the pressure off of the need to make things happen and helps me be more aware of myself, others, and the things going on around me.

It seems to me that the more we focus on things the less aware we are of anything else.  I often compare this concept to the feeling of walking into a room and not remembering why I went in there in the first place.  It could also easily be described as that frustration that builds when we are searching for something intently, so caught up on the idea that we have to make something happen, kind of like when we can't find our keys and know that we can't be late for work today.  In the grand scheme of things, it's all kind of comical to me that we ever let ourselves believe that we really have that much control over existence.  Even if we found the keys and left early, the universe can still stop us from being somewhere at a certain time if we aren't meant to be there.

Being aware of this concept and the fact that it seems to stem from focusing too heavily on something leads me to ponder the saying, 'life is what happens while you're busy making plans.'  If we really think about it as a literal interpretation and accept it as that, it feels like there is a lot of wisdom in this saying to me.  No matter how hard we try to make things happen or focus on them it's never really in our control when or how they come to be.  However, if we surrender to that lack of control and let the universe lead where it will, I find that Law of Attraction seems to bring things and people into my life for the right reasons at the right time.  I just have to stop focusing so intently on my idea of what those reasons are or who those people might be and especially when and how they appear to see that it's all already working as intended.  Namaste.
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