Recipe for life?

I am sitting here on a Friday night working on my school work and baking a cake. I smell the cake in the oven and I can not wait until it comes out! : ) This is my life. I sometimes wish that life could be as easy as my Banana bread recipe. You mix all of the ingredients together in no particular order really and it turns out good 95% of the time (as long as I don't leave it in the oven too long). The recipe tells me what to do...I follow the recipe and good results are obtained. Unfortunately and fortunately, my life doesn't come with a recipe. It just isn't that planned out. It is unfortunate because sometimes I wish my life was easier and I didn't have to make hard choices. But at the same time, wouldn't life be boring if all my choices were made for me? If I woke up one day and I was told how to live my life, I would most likely revolt. I don't take well to being controlled.

If I had to write a recipe for life, what would it be though? What are the ingredients to a full life? This sounds so cliche and silly now that I write it. But really, what do I want from my life and where do I want to be? There are so many possibilities...

I could be a...
Casserole... prepared in advance for all the busy life turns with a family to boot.
Or Pad Thai...full of adventure and new experiences, out of the ordinary.
Or I could even be Enchiladas...everyone loves enchiladas...full of good times (aka fat) and familarity.
Maybe my road is a Take Out from Wendy's aka I am too lazy and busy to even spend time on myself.

All I know is that I don't want my life to be much of the same...stale and boring. I want to be so much more than that.