Dear Isra:

Your early morning thinking is as potent and strong as that first cup of coffee for me. What an interesting thread. My understanding of it: it is about control (directing one’s life by planning and then executing plans) vs. spontaneity (going with the flow), the balance between the two.

You want to be careful, not careless; responsible, not irresponsible. You also want to be free, not inhibited, constrained.

When a person is too controlled, unbalanced that way, the person’s feelings are ignored and so, a valuable source of information required to re-evaluating plans is not available and so, the person will fail to live a good life. So with planning, a person needs to be free enough to be able to re-evaluate a plan, make changes to a plan, sometimes abandon one plan and form another.

Balance is key. What a stimulating early morning thread, just like my coffee!

anita