"You can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose how you react to what happens to you."
I don't know who said that, but I've heard it quoted many times, in many different circumstances ... it's one of those quotes that sounds good and true, but many times (at least for me) very difficult to put into practice in your everyday life...
Monday, I was exhausted from moving those four truck loads of stuff for the church yard sale. I was frustrated because I hadn't been able to scrapbook all weekend, and no scrapbooking on Monday either because of grocery shopping and other errands... but I did go to the YMCA for my normal step aerobic class at 6:00. Parking since they remodeled a few months ago has been difficult because they've added so many classes and the big swimming complex. There are a lot more people going to the Y and you have to really time when you arrive especially in those after-work hours. I had already driven around the block once, when I came back around, I saw a guy pulling out, but there was someone else in front of me - so figured that one was gone. Then a young lady came out and seeing me waiting, indicated she was pulling out. The guy in front of me pulled ahead past both places. Thinking he was going to back up for the first one, I continued to wait for the girl. Then the person behind me came around and parked in another spot that opened up; and the car behind her whipped into the spot the guy was waiting for. Then when the girl pulled out, he backed up like he was going into her spot - I thought, 'No. You've passed 2 places.' Two people behind me have taken 2 other spots and I'm parking in the spot I've been waiting for. I honked my horn. He got all irritated and got out of his car trying to explain that he had moved ahead to be polite to the person behind me! That person had already parked somewhere else and was not even the person in the place he had supposedly been 'polite' for. I told him no that wasn't what happened....and he told me I was rude. I said, No, I'm not. But I'm parking in my spot now. (And I did.) My action (re-action) to the situation is really an attitude I'm trying to overcome. To calm down. To learn to act appropriately, and not react. So, my workout, after a very frustrating weekend and day off, was not very beneficial, because of the incident.
Wednesday. It's the final day the Homeschool Association is using our building for their end-of-year testing. They return all of the tables and chairs to the rooms borrowed from, lock all of the doors and drop off the key at the office. They also give me a card. Thanking me for my beautiful and godly attitude in helping them...
One week. Two incidents. Two reactions/attitudes. It's all about the perception from the person on the receiving end of the attitude...
I don't know who said that, but I've heard it quoted many times, in many different circumstances ... it's one of those quotes that sounds good and true, but many times (at least for me) very difficult to put into practice in your everyday life...
Monday, I was exhausted from moving those four truck loads of stuff for the church yard sale. I was frustrated because I hadn't been able to scrapbook all weekend, and no scrapbooking on Monday either because of grocery shopping and other errands... but I did go to the YMCA for my normal step aerobic class at 6:00. Parking since they remodeled a few months ago has been difficult because they've added so many classes and the big swimming complex. There are a lot more people going to the Y and you have to really time when you arrive especially in those after-work hours. I had already driven around the block once, when I came back around, I saw a guy pulling out, but there was someone else in front of me - so figured that one was gone. Then a young lady came out and seeing me waiting, indicated she was pulling out. The guy in front of me pulled ahead past both places. Thinking he was going to back up for the first one, I continued to wait for the girl. Then the person behind me came around and parked in another spot that opened up; and the car behind her whipped into the spot the guy was waiting for. Then when the girl pulled out, he backed up like he was going into her spot - I thought, 'No. You've passed 2 places.' Two people behind me have taken 2 other spots and I'm parking in the spot I've been waiting for. I honked my horn. He got all irritated and got out of his car trying to explain that he had moved ahead to be polite to the person behind me! That person had already parked somewhere else and was not even the person in the place he had supposedly been 'polite' for. I told him no that wasn't what happened....and he told me I was rude. I said, No, I'm not. But I'm parking in my spot now. (And I did.) My action (re-action) to the situation is really an attitude I'm trying to overcome. To calm down. To learn to act appropriately, and not react. So, my workout, after a very frustrating weekend and day off, was not very beneficial, because of the incident.
Wednesday. It's the final day the Homeschool Association is using our building for their end-of-year testing. They return all of the tables and chairs to the rooms borrowed from, lock all of the doors and drop off the key at the office. They also give me a card. Thanking me for my beautiful and godly attitude in helping them...
One week. Two incidents. Two reactions/attitudes. It's all about the perception from the person on the receiving end of the attitude...
