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Every time my friends and I are together there's a game we play. We call it the spinning game. We spin round and round and get as dizzy as we possibly can. When someone says "go!" we race to a certain point in the yard. Sometimes it's a tree, sometimes it's a bush, and every now and then it's a fence. But we always know where we're going, and we almost never make it there.
By the time we stop spinning and it's time for us to take off, we're all so dizzy we end up somewhere totally different than planned. We usually end up falling down, and we never know where we're going to end up. And for us, that's what makes it fun. It's not a bad thing that we don't end up where we want to be, and it's kind of like life.
Some people have their life all planned out by the time they're nine. They know where they're going to live, they know what they're going to be, and they even know what they're going to name their kids. But throughout their life, they spin, and their plans change, and they don't end up where they planned.
I've noticed most people at a young age have decided what they want to be when they grow up. But I've also noticed that idea gets changed many times. They might want to be a fire fighter, and then they spin. And then they want to be a doctor, and it probably changes often. Every time you advance in life, or grow up a little, it's like you're spinning around once. And it makes you a little bit dizzier, but gives you a different view on things, and it may change your plans on where you want to go. But, even when your plans change, it makes life a little more fun and exciting.
I believe that no matter how hard you try to figure out what you're meant to do in life, or even if you don't try at all, you'll get where you're supposed to be, eventually. One of my favorite songs goes, "Who needs to know just when, fate will take you there. It's a charmed life unexplainable grace, stumble and you'll fall right into place" It's basically saying fate will take you where you need to be sooner or later. If you just go with the flow, with time, your life will fall into place.
But this doesn't mean you can just sit around and you'll become a great, successful person because it's what you're meant to be. It just means you shouldn't plan too far ahead. Of course, you'll need to plan ahead a little bit, but you shouldn't have your life planned out until your eighty. Because plans change, and things happen, that make you end up totally different then where you thought you'd be.
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