Some days are really great. Everything goes perfectly (or close to it), and we feel happy, enthusiastic about life and ready for anything that could possibly come our way. Other days have the possibility to be the total opposite, unfortunately. Sometimes, things just don’t go the way we want them to, we may be faced with undesirable circumstances and might feel like life is just not that great. A bad day changes our whole mood and outlook on life, making it difficult to isolate that one bad day from all of the good days that we’ve had and all of the better days that are ahead of us.
I think that sometimes, we tend to magnify the bad things and look at them as being way more ‘bad’ than they really are. It’s hard to think about the fact that bad times don’t last forever and that ‘brighter days are ahead’ when we are at points where it’s so hard, or almost impossible to find those silver linings on clouds that we’ve heard so much about. It can also be hard to feel better when we have horrible days because of the fact that ‘bad days help you to appreciate the good ones,’ or ‘difficult times make us stronger.’ Personally, I don’t find any of these things comforting. I just don’t feel like they can console me and make what I’m going through any easier to bear.
Can you remember all of the bad days you’ve had, ever? Do they still have an effect on you today? Do you feel even a little bit like the way you felt the last time you had a horrible day, right now? Have things from your bad days ‘carried over’ to your day right now (today)? Have the days you’ve had that were less than ‘good’ or ideal had an impact on who you are today, how you feel right now, or your ability to have great days and be happy and positive? ….
Almost all of our bad days become insignificant and obsolete. And, it doesn’t even take that long for them to become completely irrelevant. Most times, we even forget what made those days so bad, how we felt, and all of the other details associated with them.
So, the next time you feel like shit, and everything’s going all wrong, ask yourself, ‘will any of this even matter in a week?’
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