Thursday, July 12, 2012

Adventures in ... Everything.


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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