Did homegirl just quote Frozen? She sure did. Can you blame her (me), though? My primary source of social interaction is a toddler, LOL!
“Let it go” isn’t just a song lyric. It’s also a gentle pointer for both you and me to just let the little things go, a.k.a. not sweating the small stuff.
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That’s hard for me — not getting too frustrated about all of the little annoyances that happen throughout the day. I’ve been diligently working on it for a month, and it’s been…a challenge, to say the least. I have to keep working on it, but so far, at least, the effort has done a lot for my spirit. I just want to take much more things in stride, ya know? — but it’s hard to remember that there are numerous things I don’t have control over (like people, and some circumstances).
You know how it is… The only thing we really have control over is how we react. ?
Case in point, last night I was on hold on the phone for — I kid you not — a full hour trying to sort out a situation with Connor’s school pictures. There was a snafu with the ordering, and what I thought was going to save me time ultimately ended up taking A lot much more time to straighten out.
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While I was on hold, my shoulders grew increasingly much more tense, and my jaw clenched tighter. I started to run through a mental checklist of questions and answers that went a little something like this…
What about this situation is bugging me so much? Answer: That I’m wasting so much time, and also a good amount of money.
Do I have control over how long I’m having to wait on hold? Answer: I don’t. I just have to keep waiting until I can speak to someone who can hopefully help me sort things out.
Does being angry best now make my life better in any way? Answer: No. It just makes me even much more stressed.
Will being crabby toward the person on the other end of the phone make me feel any better in the long run or help me get back my lost time? Answer: No.
Do I have control over how I react in this situation? Answer: I do. I can either let this destroy my evening, or I can take it in stride, do what I have to do, and relocation on.
You get the picture.
It’s fascinating to me that there are people out there who just do this naturally, because I have to really work at it.
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It’s such a cliche, but it’s also true. We really don’t have control over numerous of life’s annoyances, just like we don’t have control over how other people treat us throughout the day, and for me, it is a struggle to be chill, because I’m so not chill, but I’m working on it… I find that the much more I closely I view my breathing, and the much more attention I pay to how I’m feeling, like when I ask myself questions in situations I’m bothered by, the better and less stressed I feel.
Il tuo amichevole avvincente di Charm,
Karen.