My least favorite interview questions are the ones about plans. “What’s your 5 year plan?” “Where do you see yourself in 10 years?” Good grief – I don’t know where I’m gonna be at the end of the day!

Don’t get me wrong – it makes sense that we should plan for the future, to some extent – but if my life went “according to plan”, I would have missed out on incredible people and adventures that only crossed my path because plans changed.

What is so great about plans? I never had a plan. Did I plan to lose my parents? No. Did I plan to find Marlin? No. Did you and I plan to meet? … Well, I don’t think we did. And that’s because the best things happen by chance, because that’s life. ~Dory

I didn’t plan to be sick – no one ever would. And while I hate it with a passion, the path it’s taken me down has changed my outlook on life and I hope made me a better, kinder, more gentle person. I see people differently…certainly with more compassion but also with less tolerance for meanness. I love more deeply, more meaningfully. I enjoy the important things more thoroughly and while I won’t say I’ve been able to overlook the meaningless things, I am learning to not focus so much on them.

I had planned to return to Biologix in October. After several setbacks, we’ve decided to return early.

I don’t know what will come of this visit – I have hope for “betterness” but I am not planning for anything because I truly believe, as Dory does, “the best things happen by chance”.

Stay tuned for updates!