14th
Let the good day be recorded!
I feel that so often, we rant and rave about our mostly meaningless troubles. And by we, I mean me. My mouth hurts, my stomach hurts, class is boring, work sucks, people suck. The list goes on and on and on. These are just current one’s I’ve been repeatedly moaning. However, I would love to take this moment to record what I think evolved into a wonderful day although nothing extraordinary happened.
Firstly, today i had my health, I could eat, I could sleep, I could walk around with minimal discomfort! This is the first time I’ve gotten to say this in five days! Wow! Something so little, a mere discomfort can alter everything about your day. I’m so grateful to be healthy! I can’t imagine the strength of people who have real health problems. How admirable they are! I am so lucky! And today the lack of a mere baby pain in comparison made my day!
Secondly, i recently sent an email to try to be on a ridiculous reality tv show and I asked others to send some recommending me and I got a call asking me to be interviewed. The great thing is I know that these interviewers do not want to meet me because of the words I put in an email. They want to meet me because of the emails sent by friends, coworkers, and even managers. Some of the people who sent these I haven’t seen in months or even years, some of them I am yet to have a long conversation with, and most of them have never seen, nor do they care about the show, however, today repeatedly these people came up to me eagerly to deliver the news that they took the couple minutes to write an email for me, and I felt so LOVED! Such a silly thing! And they still did it, because I asked them to and got me something I thought I wanted. Most touching of all I thought was that my general manager not only wrote one, but claims to have complete confidence I’ll be cast. And I know the only reason he sent it is because I told him it would have me leave five months instead of one if i didn’t. Sweet of him though.
Thirdly, today people were nice. I work in job where most people can really really grate on one’s nerves. I imagine it’s the same way with most jobs, but today i can honestly say I didn’t mind working. Other employees were friendly instead of irritated, the people eating at my tables were…… just nice. No one left a hundred dollar bill on the table or anything remotely close to it, but EVERYONE was friendly, nice, pleased with met demands, frequently even calling me by name, something I like in my job. Things were moving slowly at times but no one got upset. A woman ended up with a barely warmed carcass in front of her instead of a medium steak and was delighted merely to get her original order in a few minutes time instead of peeved at the mistake. I wish every person knew how much their collective politeness made my night. I hope they understand that when they are being patient or understanding or friendly to someone even though they don’t really benefit from the interaction, that it can make a big difference.
Fourthly, I got to sleep in. Because i chose to. I woke up I walked around. i did a couple things and then I curled up in my deliciously warm bed. It rocked!
Fifthly, I got a hundred percent on my midterm! And had the motivation to take it early! Hi-yah!
All the factors combine, to make a pretty nice day I believe. Not because I got to be in Hawaii or even attend some event I love with people I love, but because I went about my daily business and everything went well. So stop breath deep. Take a second. Nope I didn’t fall in love, strike it rich, become wildly talented, or live out a lifelong dream, but today…this second…. I’M HAPPY!
