Why I’m Saying “Yes”

And not making plans

Melissa Miles McCarter
5 min readMar 5, 2024

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Photo by Drahomír Hugo Posteby-Mach on Unsplash

“The most important lesson I learned,” I told my eight-year-old daughter a few weeks ago, “is that you never know what’s going to happen in life.”

“What do you mean?” she asked, looking perplexed in light of my words of wisdom, reminding me of how little I know.

“You can make all the plans in the world but never know what is going to happen,”…

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