Is there a plan to our life ?

Is there really? - hv been reflecting lately - am I the person that I thought/dreamt/wanted to be when I was a child. When i was a kid i had my share of childhood dreams as they say - u know like grow up to become a smart & charming guy who has his way with people - just for the record: i used to be extremely shy & people phobic (there i have admitted it in public) - and now when i do a reality check i think people will agree that i am far from being a dashing/people charmer kind - so there goes dream # 1. Heres another one - I wanted to have enough money that i could generously give them away to all my near and dear ones so that they would be able to come out of their 'situation' - but to till date I havent been able to - I mean i did off n on but not in the way i had wanted to. There are many more - some were in the nature of aspiration (n not dream). Like when i was getting into engg. college i aspired to be a good technology proffessional - but somewhere down the line the plot got muddled and i found myself in a B-school - not that it was a bad thing - but it wasnt what i saw myself doing at that point of time - and the list goes on - am sure every one will have their own list

So the point is, things usually does not go the way u plan/aspire it to be - and may be thats the way it is meant to be - so may be there isnt really a plan - may be thats what its all about - uncertainty, unpredictibiltiy, not having control (but still acting that we do)- may be we should just focus on one step at a time - I guess the course of ones life will take tomorrow is shaped by the learning that ones acquires today (like in my case when i was getting into engg college i didnt know a thing abt MBA & B-Schools , during the course of it i learnt abt those and by the end of it I had decided that i would want to do an MBA) - so I guess planning/thinking too much further ahead probably does not work and hence is not required - anyways to end this going-no-where peice, heres a thought that Rashmi Bansal mentions in her book 'Connect the Dots'. She thinks that the events that happen in our life are dots that seemingly appear adhoc when they happen - but the same events will eventually make sense when you look backwards - and so to speak u will be able to connect these dots then - really ?