Vi-sis-i-tood
vicissitudes: successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs. This was my plan. Grow up, go to college, meet a boy, get married, have babies, be the best wife and momma the world has ever seen and live happily ever after serving my church and family till the day I died. I convinced myself that this plan was foolproof, the perfect ingredients to a happy fulfilled life. Wow. Not only was I grossly naive, I was incredibly misled. I had this plan for years and no one told me life might not go according to my plan. My adult life started out, what I had deemed, picture perfect. I left home, went to college, met a boy, dated for 4 months, got engaged, married 10 months later, quit school, moved in with in-laws, didn't get pregnant, worked in retail... wait... wait... ...This was not the Plan. For some reason things kept changing! Why wasn't my life going according to this perfect plan that was laid out from infancy?