All I need is cigarettes and alcohol.

I believe life is better without a plan. Sure, we all imagine what our lives are going to be like, we all dream of having the big house, the big job and the flashy car. Some of us dream of the big wedding to the perfect partner, having the family around them, little children that they can bring up, and the family pets. But I sometimes question myself on what is the point in planning all of this? I have seen plans being destroyed, childhood dreams that didn’t work out the way that they should, and people saying ‘it wasn’t supposed to be like this’. Well, what it was supposed to be like, when dreams and actual reality are completely different. If I imagine what I want my life to be like in 10 years time, I would say I want to have completed university with a 1:1, turned into a big name in freelance design, opened up my own studio and shop in Camden town as well as being in a brilliant relationship, possibly engaged and living in a studio apartment. All of this is a dream, obviously. I may not complete university with a 1:1, this will not change life dramatically, but it will be the first bit of my plan ruined, meaning I will have to reconsider my life plan all over again. Grades aren’t everything now days, but they are certainly still recognised. Will I then turn into a big name in freelance design, when it isn’t the grade that is recognised but my style of work? Have I got my plan wrong already? Setting myself up to achieve a dream world is probably one of the worst things I can do, thinking I have planned it, it has to happen. I could wait a whole life time for this dream. What ever happened to spontaneous living, when you could do what you wanted, because it makes you happy no matter where life leads you, when you could discover a whole new passion in life, that you didn’t plan or dream of finding. Life is unexpected and no one can truly know what is going to be thrown at you in the next week, month, year or decade. Everything in our little worlds could change, for the good or for the bad, and then where do our plans come into that. All we have as human beings is the ability to shape our lives into something that we are comfortable with, something unique and exciting for ourselves to keep living within it, but it will always be changing, discovering new things that make it even more exciting and worth having. In my opinion, planning life is trying to act as a god, trying to control things that are inevitable. Instead my theory is take what life throws at you, work hard for what you believe in, but more importantly leave the future a complete mystery, because only then will it be worth living within.