We're living in a culture that is definitely stuck in between praising the planner and cheering on the art of just letting it happen. I feel like I am constantly being told to let things happen the way that they will, and that things just effortlessly fall together, but the thing is, for me anyway, nothing just effortlessly falls together.

In fact, everything hardly just falls together. There's a lot of elbow grease and behind the scenes nonsense that goes into things effortlessly falling together. The truth is: there is no denying that planning is an essential portion of life.

It just is.

I know that I personally have an issue with letting go. And I also get that there has to be an aspect of just letting things happen, but just doing so without some force of action or some loose roadmap will not get you to any destination.

Maybe it isn't all about the destination, and maybe it is all about the journey. But how are you going to go on a journey if you don't have at least an idea of where you are going?

I may be an avid planner, but I have learned to let the reigns go a little bit, and although it has been super frustrating, it's also been rewarding. And it's gotten the job done. But I've always known where I wanted to go, and loosely how I can get there.

Nevertheless, I am open to the possibilities of rerouting. Life doesn't come with a GPS, but it does give us the geography of the rocky terrain from a birds-eye-view, and I am incredibly grateful for that. But it's what we do with what we are given that really matters.

And it's finding the happy medium between planning and letting go. It's the in-between that counts. The loose structure of the art of letting go. It's life's jazz piece that we are dying to see through. It's planning on letting go because you trust the end result will be promising --even if sometimes it isn't. So you hope for the best, but you plan for the worst.

And you learn from a healthy amount of failure. And a trivial amount of mistakes. And you let it happen --time and time again.

Sometimes we have to pump our culture full of happy mediums.

We have to find those happy mediums.

And this is one of them.