Talking with a friend today about how different people schedule things, and it occurred to me that there are largely two different extreme ways of planning for future events in ones life.
There are those that, when an opportunity comes up for some future event, they choose if they are going to do it or not, at that point. If they choose to attend it, then they exclude other possibilities from happening. They plan, and have to assume that they made the right choice, but they can be in comfort, because there is "a plan".
Then there are those that, knowing about an event, and being interested in the event, may set a mental intention that "it would be nice" to do that, but they continue with their life, allowing all possibilities in their consideration, until a final moment of decision, when all the other options have vaporized, leaving only this outcome. Making the decision before then, wouldn't include the other possibilities that emerged along the way.
If the event could be imagined as the tip of an umbrella - where all the spokes come together, and time as traversing up the umbrella towards that tip, the first people will close their umbrella, to prevent collecting other options - all the possibilities compress into a forced decision. For the second, the umbrella stays open, until each possibility leads to the final outcome...
Both approaches have their advantages, they are comfortable for some and alien to others...
