Who says to plan?

Planning has been an important component in every woman’s life and I am no different. I just love to plan. But lately none of my planning seems to work and so does with people around me. The girl was young, beautiful, smart and talented. She fell in love with somebody you would be proud to bring home and your parents mighty impressed. He had the degrees, the job, the age and everything for a ‘happily-ever after love story’. When everything was working fine, his job, her career, their parents…she did one thing that we (women) are so good at. She planned. And according to her plans, they got married after a fairly long courtship. When both were relatively settled, career wise. She could manage to take a break for the impending wedding and the honeymoon. He was fairly established to ask for long absence from work for an exotic location honeymoon. Maybe, get a tan (expensive because the expenses were to cost a bomb) and show-it-off at work. And successful, they were in going as per plans. Marriage took them to phases of life, which they handled pretty well. The bedroom sagas were planned too. Sexless nights on week days because both had to report early to work. Weekends were reserved for some action but on-your-guard was the ‘keyword’ because they were on planning. She didn’t want to extend the family until some quality time spent together which did extend till five years. And it wasn’t that they couldn’t afford a child but she had a long list of plans to follow first like a three bedroom house with 2 car parks, separate cars for each of them blah blah (which we women are so good at). As before, the plans worked well to an extent. They did have a child after 5 years whom they welcomed with all the love and affection you could think of. She took a break because she had planned well to raise her child. He had reached an important position where you could support his family comfortably. Everything was working as per her plans. But hey, wait. After almost a decade the marriage fell apart. The plans went haywire. Despite all the love, the comfortability, the easy finances something fell short. Now, she has no plans to fix it up. Maybe there is a force above who has the right to make plans because only He has the power to make or break them. Today, when I too migrated to a new country, I had my own plans to lead my life. Nothing big just small little ones. Yet nothing seems to be working as per my plans. Then I remembered them and told myself ‘who am I to make plans?’