i live a pretty random life. a pretty crazy one. and a lot of people think so. but the people who really know me get it. they get that my life, in every sense, is a representative for everything i stand for as a person, in the truest sense. i live for adventure. i live for new people. i live for random situations. i live for untried challenges. i live for tough choices. i live for the head-over-heels kind of love. i live for disappointment. i live. simply put. i LIVE. for the moment. for every moment. for right now.

over the years, i’ve seen so many people who are not living. and these are the people who have the hardest time making sense of my life. understandable. some people need a plan. can’t live without one. whether it’s a life plan, a five-year plan, or a plan for the next hour of the day. me, i don’t have plans. which is weird seeing that i’m an event planner by day. but on a personal level, i believe plans take the life out of living. you’ve heard the saying, “the more routine, the less life.” great saying. i know there are people out there who think i am crazy. someone once even used the word “trainwreck.” i get that. i don’t have a plan. but to these people, i say, you can keep making plans. you can keep making plans for your day, for the next five years, for your life. and meanwhile, i’ll be living mine. with no plans. and with no regrets.

some people say it better than me. like author, john green, in his novel, looking for alaska. “you spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. you just use the future to escape the present.”

and this is the whole reason for me starting this blog. because i never, not for a minute, want to escape the present. in my eyes, you should celebrate the things you’ve done in your life. take pride in them. instead of feeling disappointed because they don’t align with some plan you made x number of years ago.