Stop blowing holes in my ship!

Sometimes it feels like I'm being attacked from all sides.

Don't get me wrong, today ended up being a great day, even if I had to leave home earlier than I was planning. I haven't felt particularly attacked lately.

What's prompting this thought is the fact that my roommate and I watched the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie tonight. I love it. I've seen it so many times I can generally quote the characters before they speak.

One of my favorite lines is the title of this blog... and then I realized that sometimes I feel like yelling that at the world, at myself, and at God. I can have perfect ideas about the way I want my day, week, month, semester, year and life to go. And in a minute, something big will happen that changes the whole scheme. Sometimes it feels like I get that from all sides: myself, God, family, friends, and the world.

Sometimes I find myself waiting and waiting for the perfect timing... I wonder how many opportunities I let slip by because I just wasn't playing enough attention.

Life's funny that way.

"If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it." [Jack Sparrow]