When things don't go 'As per the Plan!'

Nothing goes as per the plan. My friend with OCD didn't like the sound of that, but it is the truth. However organised we may be or however planned we expect things to turn out, they never happen to be the same. Remember, praying the other night that it doesn't rain tomorrow or your match would get postponed? Remember, telling yourself that the viva external wouldn't ask me those difficult questions everyone has heard he is asking them? Remember, making an office presentation overnight and the other day the office power suddenly went off while you were presenting it? We have all been there and done that. Normal situations we all came across. But how we reacted towards it mattered. The perception, the hope, the mindfulness, the analysis and the resilience we withheld in such overpowering situations mattered. There are no tips one can give for handling such a pressure situation. But there are certain measures that if we may obtain, chances are that we can come out of it with flying colors. Sitting in the park watching people go by, reading a book ironically named 'Thinking Fast and Slow', which is a remarkable best seller pictured around the corporate water filter gossip that goes around and how small decisions can leave bigger impacts. It talks of two systems i.e. the automatic or impulsive (fast mind) and the apprehensive or rational (slow mind). I decided to shut it down for a while and started to gulp into the character of it and 'think slow'. It felt as if people were going past me in slow motion and I could observe every inch of them. The lady with a kid in the pram walking past me with earplugs in her ears needless to observe her baby was feeling cold in that fancy red scarf she put on him just for the sake of it. The grey haired man with a stick in his hand, walking on the cemented path with his friends, not bothered about how he would manage to reach home before it gets dark. The young teen wearing a blue polka dot skirt with her beau having a time of her life, but with an apprehension in her eyes of being noticed by others in the park. The middle aged aunt with that grave expression on her face counting money on her fingertips probably trying to figure out the expenditures of the month ahead. And the 8 year old boy playing and jumping all over the park getting dirty in the mud unabashed by how his mother would react to his clothes. It was as if someone had pressed a pause button and I could notice the expressions people tried not to portray. Uncertain, that if they were as aware of their emotions as I was at that moment. Despite of all the conundrum we are surrounded by it's surprising how we still manage to work out a way at the end of it. Whether it is giving a great viva despite a strict external or easily managing the month ahead while we thought it would be one helluva task. We get over the situation and get stuck in a similar situation over and over again. Whether it is a nervous viva or a financially tight month end. Ever analysed how did that happen again? How did the things that were expected to fall into place suddenly dint go by smoothly? Nothing works out by itself. It takes the right kind of people, choices, actions and perceptions to work it out. May be we were thinking fast at that time. Had we slowed down, paused and re-winded the situation in our head we could have been in a better place. To err is human but to repeat it is stupid! We keep o thanking our stars that we got saved this time and the next time we will be careful. But we forget that it takes a real man to realize what went wrong and not repeat the same thing the next time. Maybe if you go through this article you get a knack of why things don't go 'as per the plan!'