So here we are in a new year... with a new chapter.
Give us your thoughts, ideas, comments, jokes, whatever this chapter title brings to mind. Tell me: Some days, don't you just hate water?
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It is all attitude!
Like getting up on the wrong side of the bed. I mean honestly ever sense I have had a bed centered on a wall instead of pushed up against one wall, it has never mattered which side of the bed I got up on. But that attitude of being upset over nothing at the very start of the day can sure taint your experience as well as the experience of everyone who comes into contact with you.
It even happens to folks who try hard to be the person the scriptures keep encouraging us to be. Go ahead and ask, everyone of them will tell you that they have had days that they would have preferred and would have been better off had they just climbed back in bed and started over.
Now I tend to be a naturally up person and for me it can be somewhat difficult to reign in a bad attitude. I raised three daughters, and one was that dark, moody, self contained individual who butted heads with the world on a regular basis. No one enjoyed being around her when she was in that blue funk. It was very hard for her to shake off a bad start. It required practice and patience and starting over. And a lot of forgiving.
I believe that unless there is a medical reason, a good portion of being upbeat versus down trodden is up to the individual. We can choose and we can change our mind
Fridays are generally suppose to be happy, TGIF! end of the week excitement.But this Friday was just not turning out too well. Moods were tense, things just weren't working out right we were having to spend time looking for papers that other people said they'd given to us, only to discover after multiple searches that they hadn't.
It just wasn't going well.
But Fridays are suppose to be a happy day right?
Right.
So I did what any sane person would do.
I went out and bought a bit tub of ice cream and stuck it in the break room for everyone to come in and grab a bowlfull.
Moods improved everywhere as the chocolate and sugar kicked in. The end of the day flew by and Friday once again joined the ranks of the best days of the week.
Mondays though, no one seems to have high expectations for them. And sure enough, last Monday was especially tough. Far rougher than Friday was. But I didn't try and improve on the day, because, I didn't have high expectations for the day. Mondays are always hard, unliked, and generally unwelcome.
Monday might could have been turned around, simply by mindset. Maybe if I'd brought in my big tub of ice cream on Monday, it would have turned. But it didn't, because I didn't expect the day to turn.
It's a roundabout way to get to back to the topic of water, but... the phrasing of the statement suddenly becomes very important.
"Some days, I hate water." It implies that water is considered to be good normally, but "some days" you just don't like it.
It leaves me thinking that the expectation is that water is generally going to be good most of the time.
So despite how negative the statement might sound...it really brings hope.
Imagine if I walked around griping "Some days I don't earn a millions bucks. I hate that."
Go back and look at the chapter title again. See it with different eyes. It can bring the hope of all the days the water is just wonderful.
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