Transcend: My Plans

Today wasn’t supposed to go this way.

I woke up tired and annoyed. I started reasoning in my head, making up reasons why people just didn’t seem to appreciate me or respect my time. I knew that my thinking was stinking and I didn’t want to go there, but the harder I tried to avoid it, the harder it seemed to be to get away from it.

After I dropped off my roommate, I proceeded to run some errands. First stop: car wash. Second stop: haircut. As I’m returning to my vehicle, I see that my spare tire cover is gone. I figured that I should go back to the car wash and check there, but first I decided to go to Staples to pick up a couple of items. Found the jewel cases but no CD mailers. Then I went back to the car wash, and was able to retrieve my tire cover (*phew*). I proceeded to another Staples location to see if I could find CD mailers, but to no avail. It was just around that time that I realized that my hairdresser had not done what I had requested, even though I must have specified 2 or 3 times.

I feel like I would be better able to cope with days like this if I weren’t as tired, or if I was in a better mood, but they always seem to happen on the days I wake up on the wrong side of the bed.

I realize that as long as I’m living, I can’t really avoid situations like this. I realize these are petty things, and in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t mean that my day was a failure.

Regardless, I feel like I could have done a better job of keeping my peace. There’s no reason to get irritated and annoyed when we have yet to arrive and we are still on our way to where we are going. The journey may not be as glamorous as the destination, but if we can’t enjoy the journey, then we may not appreciate the destination as much either.