Expect the Unexpected
January 26th, 2009 by ConorI always seem to think that everything will go the way I imagined it. I always seem to think nothing will get in my way of what I desire. It seems like nothing ever goes to plan. It seems I leave every plan to the last minute and then it doesn’t work and I don’t have time to start again, so the whole idea is scraped. Its in my power to achieve my ideal end result but I am the one who makes the faults and hopes on only chance that everything will workout fine, which it rarely does. There will likely be obstacles that I have to overcome to achieve my goal, and I don’t always get by these obstacles, but I will always have obstacles in my way regardless of what my plan entails. I can’t foresee what’s going to happen, and my guess is as good as anyone else’s, but its in my power to chose how far I am willing to go. William Shakespeare demonstrates power with good intentions, can have disastrous results.
It’s rare for me that one of my plans work out even relatively close to what I expected, one plan that always seems to fail me is study plans as I always find excuses or ways to avoid hitting the books. This year during the end of Christmas holidays after two weeks of relaxing and trying not to think that it won’t be long before I’m back in a classroom, but just then it dawned upon me that I have finals in less than a month and can’t remember half the lessons of last year. I said to myself that about two weeks before the final I’d start out slow by organizing my binders and choosing what I think I need to learn more of, and what I already know, and sort them into each different section like Cycles, Circulatory System or Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration. Once all my notes and assignments were organized I’d start picking up the pace and thoroughly study each subject before the finals. As even I expected this did not turn out the way I planned. Everyday I would have a new excuse no to study, thinking if I watch this movie now I will study the cycles later, or I want to watch the Oiler game so I’ll study twice as hard tomorrow. I never had an acceptable reason not to study, I had basketball on mondays and wednesdays but that was only from 6:30 to around 8:30, which still gave me plenty of time, or my job at Rona but the store closed at 5:30, giving me not reason not to review for the finals. As the Bio final was a mere three days away I finally got the message and started cramming like never before. As I was looking over my notes I thought that their is a lot of subjects that I don’t have a clear understanding of, and I realized how stupid I was always putting studying off until the last minute and if I didn’t watch the Oiler game I would have a better understanding for tomorrow. I know I really need to work on my study habits, but its not something that can change overnight for me, but I’ll continue to work on them until I’m satisfied.
In Shakespeare’s novel Macbeth, the valiant war hero, Macbeth, trades his ideal life for one of tragedy, treachery, and dishonesty. I saw Macbeth’s early life as a desirable one, he was the poster-boy for the Scottish army, the king’s right hand man, Thane of Glamis, and role-model of thousands as he unseamed the enemy’s of Scotland from nave to chaps. As Macbeth was rewarded for his heroics with more power as he was named Thane of Cawdor by the king, but it seemed Macbeth was not satisfied with being the most powerful Thane of Scotland, he wanted to go to the top and it seems he would do anything as he assassinated the beloved Duncan to get his way. The real mastermind behind the assassination plan was Lady Macbeth, it was her who urged her husband to be more of a man and think for himself, and as new king he would have lots of time to think. The plan was successful so far, but the power was to great for Macbeth as he became mad with power. The amount of power Macbeth completely corrupt him and he always had a sense of paranoia, that someone knew what evil deeds he had performed. Macbeth started making his own plans and one obstacle was to get rid of the ones he suspected of knowing what dark deeds he has performed and firstly Macbeth had his best friend slaughtered. Banquo always stood by Macbeth even though he did figure out how Macbeth had risen to power he would have remained loyal to Macbeth to the end, the fear of Banquo knowing led to his unfortunate death. Even as his wife took her own life, Macbeth doesn’t even bother with this tragedy yet simply says she should have chosen a better time to die, as Macbeth was on the eve of battle, and surely planned for her to die along with him. I’m sure when Macbeth decided that he wished to be king he saw a great land full of promise, he did not see a desolate land which was a refuge to murderers and traitors. As the English army was at his front gates he must have realized that he messed up, he had good intentions in all his plans but ended up being a tyrant who ruled with an iron fist, and was killed for his mistakes. When Macbeth was the general for the royal army, and the only title he held was the Thane of Glamis, he never really had to plan what he would do next, he just followed orders presented by Duncan or at home followed the instructions from his wife. If Macbeth never awakened his thirst for power, he would be the great hero he started as, he wouldn’t of needed to make his own plans, he would just follow others, and that was what he was best at.
In the nineteenth century the U.S.S.R created a new governmental concept known as Communism, which seemed like a great plan but ended up with terrible results. Communism was a collective ownership of everything, nobody was better than anyone else, everybody was equal privatization was gone. The idea sounds good for the citizens where no one holds power over anyone else, and they just rely on others to help them. What started our great quickly turned into a disaster. Workers all got paid the same no matter how hard they worked so as expected they didn’t care or show any enthusiasm towards their jobs and this resulted in lower standards of goods in the economy. As humans people need a motivation that they will be rewarded for doing things right. If I don’t have to try and get paid as much as my co-worker who is giving it one hundred and ten percent then why would I. The idealist of this way of life was Karl Marx who thought the Soviet Union could become a great power if it could be more independent. Im sure Marx thought the people of the land would have worked cooperatively in achieving this goal. Now they whole country was in a hole, as the lazy workers chose not to work shipping low quotas of goods through the land, leading to what could be called a economic depression. The leaders discovered the only thing they could do was return to Capitalism. Marx had a well established method of becoming an independent counrty, but he did not foresee the lack of energy from the citizens who didn’t have a motive to do their best.
I always hope our plans go the way I want but they never do. I can’t think of every little thing that will go wrong. I can’t stop planning my life. If I make mistakes I have to learn from them and consider a different approach to achieve the same goal. If I see that my plan is failing like Communism I can’t continue to follow it, I have to let go before its too late. Not every plan falls apart and it is in our power to make sure of that. In this life things don’t always go the way I wanted, but I’ll have to learn to expect the unexpected.
Today the world is has no lack of starved ambition, it’s a driving force used in today’s society. Regular citizens that climb over each others backs to get the higher role to get the higher salary. People that waste their lives gunning for the next big break, the dark side of it is gang members murdering others to climb their way to the top. 
