There are days when things just seem like they’ve gone haywire. It’s like a perfect storm has arrived, and there’s a succession of delays and setbacks that complicate our lives and prevent us from getting anything done.
On those type of days, it’s as if order and logic have gone out the window. Even if we had everything planned, it’ll all get disrupted by things we had overlooked, miscalculated, or hadn’t foreseen.
When things are off, the only viable solution is to adapt, or to have a plan B. But a plan B can only exist if we had been in this snafu before. And if we hadn’t, well . . .
Once the day is over, we might ask ourselves: how did this happen? Why did things go wrong? Sometimes there’s no explanation for it, because everything was too random and unpredictable to make sense of. Or maybe there is an explanation, but we can’t understand it now, since it was one of those things that will make sense to us later in life.
There are things we can take away from a day that’s off. It can be seen as a test of our character–how well we respond under pressure or when things get tough. Some people might look at the bright side–find the humor and absurdity in it. Or it can be that when things are off, that’s just part of life, and we must face it head on.
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