Some days just don’t start out well.
For example, you turn off your air conditioner only to find
that it’s been draining inside the house for you don’t know how long, and then
you remember that you’re still out of coffee and Diet Coke, and then you ALSO
remember that later today? You’re going to have to let someone know that s/he
no longer has a job, and you have three conference calls on top of that, and
life, it would seem, is not all rainbows and unicorns.
On those days, you should really try not to panic.
Because the truth of the matter is this: You will scrounge
up some caffeine. (Hey, there’s a k-cup hiding behind the cereal! WHERE DID YOU
COME FROM, MY BEAUTY!) The maintenance guys – who MIGHT be named Darryl and Darrell,
I’m just saying – will come for the air conditioner. They will compliment your
hand-me-down chairs (seriously, everyone loves those damn chairs. They might
get their own blog!) and fix the AC and in general, be so nice and funny and
New England-y that you will want to hug them. (But you shouldn’t, because
Darryl gets flustered and Darrell will just pat you on the back nervously and
want to escape.) You will help someone to find a new career path and be gentle
and kind when s/he is upset and crying. You will survive your conference calls
with humour and grace and some know how.
Because the truth is that, no matter how you react? The
things that happened – out of coffee, broken AC, calls, job woes – are GOING to
happen. So you can rail against them – OH THE HUMANITY!!! – or you can run with
them. It’s either an obstacle course or an adventure. You can pick. It’s not
always EASY to choose wisely, but that doesn’t make it less of a choice.
Today may have started poorly.
But it’s been an adventure.
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