plan to dream!?

Planning is such a funny thing! You go through every miniscule detail elaborately-
think of appropriate situations, rehearse reactions, and even have place for people you will be flanked with and even their responses!

Engrossed in such a train of thought, you smile or frown to yourself to the great amusement of people around you! I have been caught once too many times busily mumbling a repartee to a smart comment, or blushing to a sudden cute proposal that comes my way! All in the dream factory of course!!

Emerging from my dream land, I feel as armed as a Jedi with my lightning fast response all at the tip of my tongue …waiting to be unleashed under slightest provocation!

But …aarrggh! THAT situation never flashes! Not even something remotely close to it!!
All my well articulated and perfectly worded response has to be left behind in the recesses of my mind hoping they will find their day!

And in the rarest of occasions, when that situation DOES raise its head, which is as similar as my thumb print, to that of my conjured situation, I am so struck and over whelmed by a sense of déjà vu that my tongue is hopelessly tied at the coincidence!
And all this after studying a paper of crisis communication for one semester, where one is ever ready with well rehearsed drills to deal with any circumstance.

As a little girl my father used to sit me in his lap and tell me “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”
But my years of experience has taught me that
Circumstances maketh a man! And planning kills spontaneity!

Also “Never plan (dream) in a public place!” especially if you think you are an expressive person!!