For myself

This is not what I expected life to be

Good thing I let go of preconceived notions

The only way I would allow myself to see

Than I realized they were nothing more that imagination

Nothing more than an illusion my mind created

Created fear of circumstance

Fear of situation

Before they even occurred

An idea of what could happen

Created a situation

HA

You can't control what other people do

You can't assume that they will act or think a certain way

Any manipulations that you try and put on a situation are a meaningless waste of time

I have such a suspicious mind though, I am always assuming 

Presuming

Presuming that I know what is going to happen

What someones intentions are

Really? Once I realized that I needed to let this notion go

It changed my life!!!!

Instead of saying NO

I say YES

I say Yes to whatever because you never know

What kind of gifts your path might bestow

Do we have a divine plan

Is there a calculated reason

For everything

I don't think so

I think we have paths

The paths we take

The decisions we make

Affect the life we will have

Inevitably

I have grown

I have grown strong

I feel myself coming 

Coming into my own

I know that everything is my life

Is an intricate web of decisions I have made

Others have made

We have no way of knowing what sort of repercussions the choices we make will have