Why Life Catches You Off Guard Part III
“Find your system and work it to give yourself the life you want!”
“I think of my life as a recipe,” Eve explained. “I love chocolate cake. For me to enjoy it I must buy the ingredients. Apply them accordingly and bake. Then I can enjoy it.”
“So planning is a recipe?” a child nearby asked.
“No, your life and how you want to live it, is. Planning is a part of the recipe that will help you to achieve success.”
“I want to be a doctor,” Anna said. “I must know, study and plan my route from high school, college, Med school to the hospital room if I want to save lives and deny predetermined fate and destiny victory.”
Damn, Eve's heart said. I must help this child.
“It seems like everything in life is connected,” Jason continues in sign language.
“Yes,” Eve agreed. “Like the ingredients for your favorite meal. And the ones who are aware, plan for it. Then they enjoy life like they would enjoy their favorite meals.”
“So, that’s why you are successful. You plan for everything and everything goes accordingly,” Nelly said.
“No,” Eve replied, nodding. “Life doesn’t go in a straight line. Not everything we plan for goes accordingly. I do my best and my actions, choices, decisions, with the help of wisdom, understanding and common sense helps.”
“But most humans can’t think of so much,” Anna said scratching her head.
“I learn from all my actions, choices, and decisions. Then I learn from the life and living of everyone I know,” Eve elaborates.
“You mean that you learn what is right and wrong from all of what you do, and from the life and living of others?” Anna quest.
Eve nods.
“So that means. my parents’ life and how they live it, would be your teacher?” Nelly asked.
Eve’s heart halted and she coughed to restart it. ‘I must help these children,’ her instincts demand.
“Learning from life sometimes gives you results or answers very quickly,” Eve said.
“It’s like a rich man who finds himself back in the gutter where he came from,” Jason signed.
Nodding, Eve explained, “Yes, going back into his life, there is a reason why life sends him back. And when I find it, it’s a tool for me.”
“Or like someone who wasted their time in school and ended up with no skills to gain good employment,” Jason signed.
“Yes,” Eve agrees. “And if we take the time to go back into their life, the reasons/tools are there. I learn from it.”
“So, you live a good life, you will get a good life?” Jason signed.
“Most of the time,” Eve elaborates. “When things go wrong, they are lessons for me. I learn, add or remove another ingredient to my plan.”
“How does it feel to be wealthy and successful?” one of her friends/enemies asked.
Staring at them again, she reversed into their past and said, “I don’t understand, when we sacrificed ourselves and take unimaginable risk to give ourselves the lives we want, society expects us to feel as if we are above humans. My success doesn’t make me better than anyone. I did what I did because it is the best way for me to get the life I want. I found my system or solution to the equation of my life. Then I work it to benefit me, while helping others.”
“And knowing yourself, is the best way to find a system that works for you?” Jason asked in sign language.
“You got to know yourself before you know anyone. That will help you to know what’s best for you,” Anna responds before Eve could.
“Yes,” Eve agrees eyeing Claudette and Emily. “Find your system and work it to give yourself the life you want!”
Both stood up and Emily slid back into their past, “For years, we couldn’t understand why you succeed coming from nothing, and we failed, coming from something.”
“I wanted it more than you,” Eve reminds them.
“Success is hard,” Claudette shares.
“Nobody said it was easy,” Eve notified.
“We didn’t know we had to fight to keep it flowing. That’s the area we failed in,” Claudette confessed.
“You mean we will have to maintain our success after we achieve it?” Jason asked in sign language.
Eve smiled as her grandfather’s words seep into her brain, “The hard part for many of us isn’t getting there, it’s staying there. And that’s where many of us fails.”
“Thank you for living up to your name,” Anna said. “My grandmother said she wanted to name Eve. My mother said, ‘that’s too must responsible for one female.’”
“What did my meant to your grandmother?” Eve asked.
“Mother of a nation,” Anna said. “You being here have saved my generation and a few others too.”
The entire auditorium cheered her as her grandmother’s words touched her heart.
Life caught my parents off guard. All six of us had dreams, no plan was made to aid us in fulfilling these dreams. I made sure life didn’t catch me off guard. I plan everything while learning from my mistakes.
Life taught me that success must be maintained because the hard part for many of us isn’t getting there, it’s staying there. — Annelise Lords
Don’t let life catch you off guard.
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