methodologically planning your life

Planning is a very easy, simple task that everyone almost always messes up. Classic example are new year's resolutions. we all know everyone practically fucks up their new year's resolution second week into the new year and most of it is a result of bad planning.

there are ways to make good plans. one can either be very academic and follow the procedures step by step (beginning of course with problem identification--problematizing--and ending with M & E) or amp it up some more by making very detailed gantt charts or pert cpm or shits that would require one to install a phone app or a software that would cost you an arm that would make it easier to derive figures and numbers and shits so everyone can start deciding whether it's a yes or a no.

or one could just make a list.

making a list is probably the most common since we all make lists. i personally make lists everyday--from to-do's to to-buys. it works half the time, still majority would end up doing badly at them but still at least people made the effort to get some nice steering done (yeah, power!). It helps people feel better about themselves--ourselves (because i am a people, too) at the end of the day. believe me, there's nothing more rewarding that knowing you DID TRY to exert control over your grocery shopping but lost the battle halfway through. (always,we must focus on the positive. yeah?)

so where am i? all right, the list.

i almost bought this book because it felt like me.
and would you believe there's even a page dedicated to grocery lists. heaven. 

i've never felt more powerful than i did five years ago doing grocery than i do now. back when i still had to save up for that can SPAM so my child could have a taste of America. But now, i can just walk in and grab the hell out of the imported canned goods section anytime of the day, whenever i feel like it, especially when i feel the urge to replenish my stock of "food for emergency situation like flooding." It turned out my son despised the taste of America and would want to have nothing to do with SPAM; he could survive eating eggs until he sweat and smell of egg.

also i feel very successful now because i always buy my pork from the branded pork section and not from the generic section where pigs were made to sleep on their own urine before they were actually slaughtered so you pick the pork and you smell it and it smells like pig's urine. yep that's what it always is in the generic pork section. disgusting pigs.

but whatevs. most of the time i feel like a grocery-ing vegetarian because it's the hippest thing to do. i'd stack on so many organic herbs and spices and forget about them only to be reminded three days after by the foul smelling herby-spicy brown mush hidden in the fridge's crisper that would lead me to investigate but it'd be too disgusting to even check out and I end up throwing all the disgusting things away. now, that's really bad planning, because that's practically budget wasted. (but i don't care, i got money to burn, yeah? i feel powerful burning money, yeah?)

so you see, we do not always succeed at this listing things, even me, a self-proclaimed "planner."

okay this is enough. i'm tired. tomorrow i will write about how a list is inversely proportional with age (and assuming that income is directly proportional with age, what we will eventually have here, ladies and gentlemen is a tragic equation).

FIN.