So how did you get where you are today? Did you follow a plan or did you just kind of end up here? Was it part plan and part happenstance … or a continuing mix of each in greater and lesser measures? What about your skills? Same answer? As young people, many of us were mystified by the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” We would think about it and struggle to have any sort of reasonable response; we would often wonder why the question was so often asked. The true warrior knows that the parent, or other authority figure, has a far different perspective—that of someone with skills, who is either satisfied with their situation or dissatisfied with what they have become. The point of their question is to try (ineffectually) to help you become satisfied with your future outcome (like they are) or to help you avoid making similar mistakes to the ones they have made (assuming they are dissatisfied with how things turned out for them). The reason that it is ineffectual is because you do not have the ability to understand what the possibilities are in meaningful terms. Your paradigm does not reflect the possibilities of the world as they can unfold for you. This is the main reason that it often seems like happenstance, when in fact something more like a divine plan is unfolding for you.

“How so?” Well let’s consider your natural talents—those that your DNA expresses. You will demonstrate talents, and those talents (when observed) will attract attention that can result in you moving towards a happy future role. Next, your socioeconomic family circumstances makes their contributions to your future role(s) in either a positive or a negative fashion. If you add your own plan to that—a plan of your creation and inspiration—you will enhance the probability of succeeding into a happy role for your life.

True warriors know that having a plan has made a big difference in their lives. Compounding that was the willingness of the true warrior to implement that plan and to pay the price necessary to actualize the plan. You are warriors, and with a plan that you work and sacrifice for, you will achieve extraordinary results. So it has been written.