“The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.” - Dennis S. Brown
It took me almost two days to realize that I had a really, really bad day on Wednesday.
I was sore all day yesterday and found a huge bruise on my elbow and it took me awhile to figure it all out. I walk a mile in downtown Chicago to get to my internship, and was walking extra careful the whole way because the sidewalks were really icy. Of course, when I was all but a block away, I wipe out on some ice. Didn't even see it coming!
We went to an event at Navy Pier where I ended up carrying three bags of toys clear across the pier, because it was taking forever to get a cart. If you've been or never been, it's over a ten minute walk from the front doors to the festival hall near the back. Add three huge shopping bags to that, I thought my fingers were gonna fall off! And it would be my luck to have one of the bags break on me and toys all over the floor!
Then I get a call that the I didn't get a job I interviewed for last month. The worst part of this is I knew her! She also brought her son into work that day so I pretty much end up watching me the whole time I was there doing my interview! Don't get me wrong, I love her son, but I was there for over four hours for this interview turned babysitting. I really wasn't an ideal job, but it paid well and it was a temporary position, so even if it didn't work out I could eventually move on. But it would've been really nice to make some money, even for a few months.
Coming home the train announcement was wrong so a whole bunch of people, including me, got off at the wrong stop!
I think I was so tired by the end of the day, my brain couldn't process just truly how bad the day was. It needed a whole extra day just to process it all! I'm still alive, a little achy, but nonetheless still here. It was a bad day, not terrible, I've had worse. It was just a bad day. We all have them, but it's how we deal with them that makes the difference. I didn't even occur to me two days ago what a bad day I was having. Makes me realize just how much I can take and still survive.
How do you deal with your bad days?
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