You know how there are just some days when you wish you could forget all about your duties and go back to bed? It's not that something is going the wrong way, necessarily, it's just that you're tired and don't feel like greeting the sunshine of the day. Sometimes, it's just a bad mood. Sometimes, it's someone else's bad mood. Sometimes it's lack of sleep. Sometimes there's just no explanation. Or maybe it's the day of a big deadline. Or maybe there's a meeting scheduled, or a person that you just know is going to be somewhere that you are going to be and for whatever reason, you don't want to see that person today. Maybe it's someone's birthday - and you just don't happen to get along well with that somebody. Maybe it's Valentine's day or Christmas or something and you have bad memories or just hate the idea of having to celebrate.
Whatever it is? Whatever the problem is that makes you wish you could call the day off or postpone it or reschedule it? .. whatever makes you wish the alarm never rang that morning? ...take comfort in knowing that when the sun sets, it's goodbye to this day. Never again will there be another today. You can kiss it goodbye, and it won't even look back. Today will be over. And tomorrow's new again. And hopefully, if you are like me anyway, you'll know that things will be different tomorrow. You'll know that a new day brings a whole new set of promises - and you'll have had enough time and energy to think about what caused the problem with the day before, so that on this new day, you'll have a better grasp of how to deal. Your bad days won't add up. They won't multiply and overtake your life. They'll just dissolve into the year, and a new day will greet you with a fresh attitude.
When I'm having a bad day, and I'm wishing for the day to bid it's farewell, I will reflect on the fact that the day will end and be gone forever. I'll remember that January came and went just as quickly as December did. And I'll laugh about how I can't remember the last bad day that I had, so it must not have been that significant anyway.
And then? I'll spend just a little less time moping about my day and a little more time hugging my kids and showing love to my husband. I'll write my friend a note, or call my mother. I'll remember that February of '09 will pass just as quickly as February of '08 did, and I'll pause to remember that I'm so lucky to be alive. To be saved. To have my family. My house. Our jobs. All this delicious food. These awesome memories that stick and the not-so-awesome memories that melt but still shape me into who I am today. I'll thank God for my health. And I'll hug and kiss my friends and family.
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Very beautifully written, Mags! I also think we should be thankful for every day we have and make the most of it but we are also allowed a few crummy dumpy ones, too. :) It's alright. Like Scarlet O'Hara said in Gone With the Wind, "I'll think about that tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day!"
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