I’m not Pollyanna. I live in the same world as everyone else, the real world. I’ve just been focused on maximizing happiness and minimizing the stress of everyday life. Unfortunately I wasn’t quite successful yesterday.
It was one of those days, which we all have every now and then, just punctuated with acute disappointment and mild frustration. The specifics aren’t important. Even in the moment things went awry, I recognized my inability to do anything about it, but I didn’t choose the correct outlook. Instead, I let it get to me, and I got stuck for a while. See, I’m human after all. Not that I thought I wasn’t, but I thought I was getting a handle on my own happiness and growing in the ability to make choices to perpetuate it. What this shows me is there’s still more to learn, opportunity for improvement, and better choices to be made. And, since I let the feelings linger longer than I should have, a reminder of the importance of resiliency.
At the end of the day I came to realize it was just a bump in the road. I took it for the reality check and lesson it was meant to be. I turned my focus elsewhere, began thinking in more creative pathways, contemplated things to be thankful for, and chose to move on…and soon enough I felt better.
That was the past. Today is a new day. I’m not looking back. I’m not so naïve to think life is all sunshine and flowers. This is, after all, the real world, and troubles are part of life. Choices in how we handle those troubles and the resiliency with which we bounce back are part of the learning curve, even if we have to repeat that learning more than once.
I’ve seen the way of the wind and will adjust my sails accordingly. I’ll chart my own course…or, is that just one metaphor too many?!
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