Preparing for a Trip of a Life time

Its a common saying that if life throws lemon at you make lemonade. Basically, a sour juice can be converted into a nice drink. I think a little differently. I think its the denial stage from the five stages of grief explained by Elisabeth Kubler Ross.We should face the things that come to us as is. It is because not every time we will have the ingredients to do that and if we are not used to accepting the sour juice we are basically not handling the situation well. Lets talk about an example here. Ms. X went for a gynecology appointment and finds out that the pap smear is not regular. She goes through tests and now docs think that she might have uterine cancer. She is in denial and doesn't share it with anyone because she knows that it will be nothing. She stays "positive". She goes into the fantasy land which is cancer free and thinks nothing can happen to her, tests are false positives all the time, doesn't want to go to a oncologist to get the diagnosis but after...

Last week I was trying to focus on making lists and getting prepared for my trip. What I will need while I am away in a totally different country which has a different culture and different language. I just want to be prepared for the worst while I am in a land of the unknown. While making the lists I thought about controlling the situation again. Is that what I have to let go? It's good to be organized but trying to control the situation that I dont know what will bring will create the same kind of frustration. We cannot always control the situation that life throws us in. We have to let go and let the universe decide for us. Then it's our decision how we respond and react to that situation. Last week when I decided that I want to take this trip I asked my boss if I can get a month off work. I even gave him the option of working remotely during that time, which I shouldn't have because I am going for myself and should only focus on me. Anyway he agreed to unpaid time off...

This weekend I took a decision to visit a place that I wouldn't have thought about visiting even in my wildest imaginations. To be honest i did not know that there was some place by that name. May be because I am not good with the world geography. We take decisions in life that are mostly not the best. we take the decisions in the spur of the moment without even thinking what will be the consequences of that decision. I have been very careful to what I do for the past four years especially. I was playing safe and only wanted to control every thing in my life. the only thing that it was doing to me was it was making me miserable and frustrated. I was feeling this way because many times we have to let go things and after any mishap we are scared of another one. To many people my mishap would not be a mishap many people call me lucky, some people call me blessed. I think in all honesty it was life being life. Unexpected turn of events when you least expect them to be. It made a huge ...