[cue the song about the bad day]
You drop your spoon on the floor at breakfast and then you step in a puddle in your socks and pretty soon it feels like the world is mocking you, its cruel laughter following you from room to room. You snap at your kids for no reason; your unmet goals become laughable pipe dreams. You fail to do anything productive before lunchtime and suddenly you've forever marred any chance of a happy life. Your entire future crumbles down around your ears, all because you dropped your spoon (or stubbed your toe, or ran out of Cheerios, or broke your favorite bottle of nail polish).
That was me today. (I made some of it up, but you get the idea.) I'm still in desperate need of some happy quotes. So here we go:
[cue Don't Stop Believin' by Journey]
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
[cue any Yanni song]
"You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the magic tissue of the universe of your life. No one can take it from you. No one receives either more or less than you receive. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you. Moreover, you cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt. You can only waste the passing movements. You cannot waste tomorrow. It is kept for you." -Arnold Bennett
Looking forward to some new, unused magic tissue when I get up in the morning.
2 comments:
That first paragraph is perfect! And it's true--a day like that is much better when a good night of sleep separates you from it!
Aww! I hope you're feeling better! We all have days like that.
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