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Generally speaking, no matter how carefully we plan our projects something can still go wrong with them. For example, when man invented machines, he declared that now all miseries of humankind would be vanished from the earth and everyone would be basking under the sunshine of never-ending prosperity. Quite the opposite.  Despite that tall claim, it was the same Industrial Revolution that emerged as a horrifying monster for human beings.  Thus, man saw further miseries due to that industrial psychosis. 

Pertaining to the idea that even our best plans are always at the mercy of unexpected events, we can do our level best when making our plans but there is something else that makes our planning a huge success or absolute failure.  That “something else” is actually the God Almighty who transforms our best-laid plans into absolute failure.  Thus, at the end of the day, we end up with egg on our face.  

Literature also is fraught with such examples that corroborate the failure of man's best-laid plans. In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, according to Julius' perception, Brutus was most loyal to him.  But at the end of the day, Brutus appeared as disloyal to Julius Caesar.  In Shakespeare's King Lear, quite opposite to King Lear's perception about his own daughters, his two daughters totally deceived him and threw him out of the palace. 

These examples from history and literature support the contention that something can always go wrong with our plans.  In a nutshell, we have to accept the saying “Man proposes, God dispossess.” Because whenever it takes place, there is always God Almighty who makes our best laid plans go awry.  That does not mean we should stop planning, but rather that we should always be prepared for the unexpected.