Live the Life You Choose..???

I was thinking tonight about "living the life you planned", or things going the way we plan them to. Then I thought about the saying "live the life you choose". But, the "life we choose" IS the life we "planned", right?

My life has not gone the way I would have planned by a traditional standard. I have said so many times while telling the story of me, "I did not plan for (enter a millions different things here) to happen". So, I guess I would say I am not living anything that was planned.

But I realized, I am living the life I chose.

We never expect for things to not go according to the plan. It's like we make plans that don't allow for any detours. A detour means your plan failed. But I think life is like maps. There is more than one way to get there. Who cares that you didn't go the way everyone thought you should. You didn't go all highway and it took you longer, but you got the scenic route instead.

I AM living the life that I chose. I chose the people and actions that landed me exactly where I am right now in this moment. I did not "plan" for what would happen if these people and things went left instead of right. But sometimes they do, and then we play victim. I am living a life a victim of my own choices. If I don't like it maybe I should make better ones.

My plan is to make the best choices possible and roll with the changes, taking full responsibility that just because what I chose didn't go the way I assumed it was doesn't change that I CHOSE it.

So far in my life the things I thought were the worst left turns ever have brought me to the best destinations. Much much better than I could have planned :)