Let The Chips Fall Where They May

There is an old saying that goes a little like "let the chips fall where they may", that is to say let things happen as they come. People all over are constantly forcing things to happen. Whether it be an advance in their career, and advance in the race, and advance in sex or a relationship. It's always something I suppose.

But why? Recently, I've been a culprit of such a crime. Forcing things in my life to happen way before they are meant to happen. And I have discovered that that is how things in any situation get ruined. People who force things in the work place usually end up miserable because they have made themselves miserable trying to get some where that with the right amount of work might have ended up there anyway.

Is it really worth being miserable over? How about relationships - friendships even. When you make some do something or force them faster then they are ready, they fall apart. Yep, that's right they do, and there isn't anyone reading this right now that doesn't know that fact is just plain...fact. It's something that is part of daily function though. With wants comes the need to have it, so if we can't have it naturally, we force it.

I'm just curious, why? Why is forcing things such a big part of every day life? (Or am I seriously just speaking to a person audience, that person being me.) Why can't we just leave what is good alone? Are we just so self-absorbed we can't see the needs and wants of someone else? That maybe in everyone's rush to force something they passed a stranger that could change their lives. They say don't blink - you'll miss it. The same thing applies to people trying to force things. And in lieu of my own sound advice and experience, don't force it - you'll lose it.

It is safe to say that from day to day things happen. Forced or not. But lets all try each new day to force less things and as I said in the beginning - let the chips fall where they may.

~ N