Working On A Quirky Graph

These last couple of weeks have been at best, a comedy of errors. At worst, devastating mentally and financially to a younger me, but currently keeping me in the frozen veggies and longer walks with the pup to make sure my head is screwed on right.

It is all about the perspective that you can keep, finding a way to maintain an even keel (which is not my strong suit) and looking beyond what is occurring in the now to make sure the foundation is shaken by whatever blockages are coming up. This has taken years for me to get to. And it is something I have to work on. It is easy for frustrations to bubble up, but in the grand scheme of things, stack ranking things that go bad, at the moment I realize that I’m fairly lucky. The things that I have determined to be important, roof over my head, food in Bear’s belly and a way for me to make my obligations which means I get to keep my integrity, that is the baseline. When something occurs that threatens those things, then sure I’m gonna get salty, but I it is still all perspective.

To illustrate, this morning I was walking downstairs with Bear to let him out so we could start our morning routine when I ripped a hole in my heel by coming down too close to the junction in the step. I still have no idea what I stepped on, but it was enough that I was bleeding all over the kitchen, the steps and the back deck before I realized what I had done to myself. I slapped some bandages on it, took Bear for his morning constitutional, and went on with my morning.

But the universe balances and I received a check in the mail from the company that did all the piering work on the house. It seems I overpaid, they caught the error and sent me money back.

Generally I will find that the give and take between annoyances and benefits is less pronounced. Subtle one might say, but this month, perhaps even this year, has just been mostly wild so I’m working with the pendulum the best that I can just so I don’t get clocked in the head.

I recently switched internet providers as the my service kept dropping and I found I was getting more and more annoyed. I called the company today to cancel and ended up having a fantastic conversation with the person on the line talking about everything from TLC to horror movies to the floods in Texas and on to financial independence. What should have been a short conversation to disconnect service was a free for all on all topics and a soul reset to think about what is truly important. I had the minutes to chat, they had the personality to match and we just went to town. And it was such a good reset. In fact I got off the call just in time to determine that my next meeting had been cancelled.

Life is so amazingly short and can be cruel if you let it. I know enough that I cannot fix all the ill, but what I can try to do is make sure those that I’m interacting with are left in a better mood or a better place than when I initially came across them.

What do you bring to the table?