So what was your plan?

Plan A once I'd met DH, was to have kids and be as happy as we could be, not rich, not famous, just OK, to keep on loving each other and to grow old together.
Plan B There was no Plan B so I came a bit unstuck when he died suddenly in his fifties.
Plan C To not make any more plans and just survive!

I dont think I have ever had a single plan for my life. The nearest I get is next years holiday or what to plant in the garden next year! Every thing else is day to day I suppose I am like the animals I live in the now.

I knew someone who had a 5 yr plan, 10yr plan etc and I thought it a terrible idea. Events can completely destroy it.
I have never had a plan and don't intent to- other than a very vague one. e.g. I don't intend to move again- but who knows what might happen?

I just live for the present and go with the flow.
I have booked a holiday for next year- but that is very unusual to be so far ahead.

Didn't make long term plans, learned in late teens not to

I've never had a plan, just wanted to be happy. However, if I'd known what highs and lows were ahead I would have been a gibbering idiot!
Daren't dwell on what's to come, it's not looking too good but it could be a whole lot worse #stillcountingmyblessings!

As a young person, I didn't really see the need for any forward planning but have regretted it - at least in relation to work.

I spent many years doing a job that I disliked and which I thought was of no particular value to anyone. If I'd had more maturity as a young person I might have questioned my Mum and Dad's laissez faire attitude to education and to life in general instead of being equally directionless and unmotivated.

However, | am quite pleased with myself for having been pro-active in later years in improving my education and developing new skills and interests - though unfortunately I could never afford to change my career.

Now I think about all the more creative things I'd intended to do when I had more time - particularly taking up amateur dramatics again - and realise that possibly my age would make me stand out like a sore thumb. I have, though, joined a choir again and am really enjoying it.

Having said all that, I do accept that I should be grateful for what I have - and I have a lot more than people fleeing for their lives from war torn countries - rather than grumbling about what in the grand scheme of things are trivialities.

You'd probably be welcomed with open arms in the local am dram club. When I was involved in set design the performers and back-stage folk were all ages and one of the funniest panto performers was a great granny.

Never had a plan which is a good job as I have been able to go with the flow of things that life has thrown at me,found it dosent help to have expectations either as that way disappointment lies.Being flexible I may have been bent many times ....but sure as hell not broken...