It’s raining, it’s pouring…
I haven’t had the best of weeks. It started of very promising as I bounced into work early on Monday morning. The sun was shining and I’d had a lovely weekend. However just like the weather, it has gone downhill from there.
It’s just been one of those weeks where everything comes to a head. There’s been a couple of annoying situations at work (that’s the edited description of it). That bad feeling grew into snowball of crap, which along the way decided to unearth horrible feelings associated with my last job. By Wednesday feeling rubbish was really gaining momentum and I was exhausted. I finished my day by buying summer clothes as my current ones refuse to fit. So added to all of this I got back into a grump about the medication I’ve been on for the past eight months, which has caused me to put on about 20lbs. And now I’m coming off that medication, the side effect of horrendous tiredness was compounding all this low feeling and shoving me towards the edge.
By the time I got home from work yesterday evening all I wanted to do was curl up in a ball and cry. I’d had enough of the week.
So I phoned my sister who offered me wise words… “However tired you are you can do what you need to do. If you don’t need to do it, then don’t do it. But if it HAS to be done then you can do it. And once you’ve done it you will feel better for it.”
And despite the part of my brain that wanted to give up, curl up in a ball, wallow in the rubbish feeling and cry my eyes out I picked myself up and got on with it.
She was right. I could do it. I did some of the cleaning I needed to do. I made cakes I’d promised to make. And by the time my friend turned up to teach me how to use my new lens for my SLR, I was feeling in an altogether better mood.
So I am happier (and have been twittering about smiling to help keep the happy energy in focus) and heading back towards being my usual positive self!
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James
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