Life plan, as they call it seems to have a special recall during the start of the year. This may be because of the feeling that a new set of calendar would also mean a new timeline to start over, get back to the line, get up from a fall, get over someone, move on from the past and the like (as if the past is only made up of bad things, miseries, sorrows, sad things). positively though, it brings a little optimism into the down-trodden hearts and minds of people across the globe. its a perspective by which nature in the oh-so-cliche natural process of light and dark (in a day0 extended into months, years, decades, and lifetimes. Life plans creates a failure-success pattern of waves that seemed become normal in the mindset of the people.
Well, enough of criticism of life plan. I'll try to think of it the positive way. Rebutting the above mentioned statement: no matter how negative the past seem to have been because of the "proposed changes' i ones being and becoming, it still gives a leeway for someone to engage in an introspective moment. An almost only once in a year phenomenon people engage in in order to assure their self of control over his/her being. Introspection: almost the same with reflection (the only difference is that introspection connotes more of the internal while reflection connotes more of the social self) is a healthy way by which people recognize their existence in a vacuum they call world and being. Other say vacuum is impossible, I say (in the most postmodern sense) that everything is a vacuum(a vacuum we think exist and is tangible.) What I'm trying to say is that introspection is a process of looking at oneself being as empty, as nothing. It seems so complex but it is actually very simple. You reconsider truth and its meaning 9if it really has one) you look at yourself and look at the truth inside of it, and you find that truth can only exist in emptiness, in the vacuum self you thought to be full.
Now, what does life plan do to the empty self? it serves as a coping mechanism of the self to assure the existence of a being. Plans, the intangible thoughts of the future are then translated to someones destiny, someones physical and almost distinguishable phase in one's life which is illuminatingly real, even if at the moment, it only exist in the middle of nothingness and emptiness of the self. This atom of a plan radiates a massive light of hope gradually filling up the nothingness; thus self is filled with expectations, with bright dreams and wants and the like. It's a process by which a bulb (a tiny object run by electricity) which, when connected to a powersource fills every reachable corner of the room it is in the center of. The being does not care whether the outside of himself is dark or uncertain, for as long as his inside is filled with light, the path of the uncertain will always be an easy path. So long as he/she sustains connection to the powersource, his direction is clear.
Well powersource could be anything at all. Anything that makes a person follow a plan. Cult members find their powersource in the "truth of the words of their leaders and savior," a student's powersource is anything that makes him/her certain that knowledge and truth emanates,(it could be books, teachers and other sources) pagan and nature believers' powersource is the pattern of being that exists in natural world, scientists powersource is the belief in an objective knowledge that can be observed and can be manipulated according to their needs and wants and a believers powersource is God, the unseen being that guides each and every action that the man does. Without such powersource, the purpose of his/her existence goes down the drain, steals him/her of his life, brings him/her to his original empty, useless self. Without the powersource, he/she lose the reason behind his existence.
Life plan then is a tool by which a person directs and maintains the being that he believed he is purposed to have. Consistency plays a major role in it. A zigzag path would only mean an uncertain self, almost good as nothing. A clear path would mean a life planned and destined for something (almost always expected to be bright and good.) Life plan is one way of ensuring life amidst the death that surrounds it.
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