I'm currently at my grandma home where a plumber is installing a water tank to give her like a safetynet for when the water would lack as summer is coming (it is common to have cuts during the hot season). The mister came last week-end to checkout the installation and see what we were going to need in term of material and... He appeared confidant and from his speech it seemed like he was accustomed to this task and he was installing the very same system all the time. The operation was due to last two hours. In reality, he has been working on it since this morning (almost six or seven hours so far) and we are still not done yet!

The annoying thing is that I have organized my entire day around this chore and according to his estimations. I have scheduled remote meetings on zoom that I wouldn't be able to attend, I have planned to do some shopping and pick up some items that I'm going to need very soon, and my mother relied on me to go to the grocerie store but unfortunatly she will need to find a back up plan or wait until tommorow, because I feel like I will be stuck here for a while.

This is a simple exemple among so many others that happen to me almost every day. Indeed, i'm a huge fan of "to do list" and planners and... Because I have such a volatile memory, I genuinely need to have things written down, otherwise I would forget tons of things. I don't think only about what task I have to do but also when during the day I'm supposed to do it. When I reflect about it, this last point might be the problem.

Indeed, there is no harm in planning your day however, scheduling every single minute of it is not realistic at all! The truth is that there are always unexpected events that are impossible to anticipate. That's why we really need to be agile and flexible, otherwise we are doomed to be disapointed and upset just like I'm right now! Just be aware that life is not a straight line that goes according to our plans, and that instead it is a complex path where we face obstacles all the time. Resilience is the key! That why I'm taking advantage of this dead time to do my journaling session of the day. The cool thing is that I hadn't to look for a topic (which is a daily struggle lol). It's not structured, I just write my current thoughts.

To conclude in one word I would say that life is impossible to schedule and luckily! Otherwise it would be boring! Knowing precisely what is going to happen is sad whereas surprises (good or bad) add flavours, don’t you think?