When I woke up this morning at 6, I had the bright idea that I could make it to the dairy and back in time for our in house editors to arrive. Three and a half hours should be plenty of time, right? so I dragged my tired butt out of bed and stumbled into the shower. By the time I was done with that, still 7:15. Easy, no problem! However, I wasn't counting on it taking 20 minutes to defrost the truck! Everything was frozen over. Then, on my way out, the sun was glaring at this weird angle on the windshield which was blinding me. So of course, I had to drive ultra slow for a short while.
I did discover one unexpected blessing. If I had gone to the dairy last night, as I had planned, there wouldn't have been any skim milk or cream. They were bottling it up for me when I arrived this morning. Isn't it cool how life works out that way, sometimes?
I got home sometime after one of my editors showed up. The other arrived about 20 minutes later. Ooops! I really do hope that we can get an office soon if only for training purposes.
The drive was quite nice. I even rolled the window down for a bit. I love driving out to the dairy because of how calming the journey is. I take the backroads there and back. There is very little traffic, and, if you keep your eyes open, you can see so much of the wildlife along the way. It's definitely on the list of the top simple pleasures in my life.
I'm coming to a point in my life where I'm starting to believe that it takes a lot more effort to be miserable than it does to just be happy. It takes time and effort to find and participate in the drama of our peers but only a second to remove it from our lives. We have to really focus hard on the downsides of life if we want to use them as excuses for unhappiness. The only part of misery that comes easy is failure. To fail, you just do nothing but even then, you have to put forth enough energy into something to know that you failed, right?
I don't make those choices. I choose the simple pleasures over the constant wanting. I choose the moments of peace over the stress of drama. I choose to go after what I want repeatedly and to honor each failure as a stepping stone to my success.
We choose our emotions. We choose them with our actions every single day. I choose happiness over misery and only want to surround myself with those of the same mindset. What do you choose?
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