Bad Days or Bad Attitudes?

I know there are just some rotten, no good, very bad days and that is a fact. I’ve run into a few in my day. But those days aren’t what I’m talking about. I’m talking about bad days that really have nothing bad about them, but yet I feel like they are just awful. I was reminded about this in a couple of different ways on one particular bad (attitude) day.

One morning I was feeling particular sorry for myself, I was tired from not sleeping super great the two previous nights and I wasn’t in the best mood. When my friend started complaining about the situation she was going through, I wanted no part of it. Instead of seeing the situation from her eyes, I saw it through my pity-party eyes. This situation was a big deal in her life. She didn’t know exactly what was going on with her health, and she wanted some answers not just, “Try this or try that.”

Thankfully, we needed to part ways soon after so she didn’t see my horrible attitude. I didn’t want to listen to her. I didn’t want to hear how things were so horrible because her situation had been going on for a few months instead of my issues that have been going on for a year and four months with only hearing, “Try this fix. Doesn’t work? Try that instead.”

Later that night talking with my mom I just cried. Everything I heard that day seemed to rub me the wrong way. I was miserable and in a bad mood. The crazy thing was when I talked with my mom, I even told her, I was being selfish. I was only worried about my plight, not my friend’s.

So, maybe she hasn’t had this problem as long as I have, but it is still a huge problem she is going through. It’s a big deal in her life. It doesn’t matter what the issue, the length, or anything else. Even though I’ve dealt with things longer, if you look around, there are people even worse off than I, dealing with things longer than I, and the list goes on.

After I talked some things out I felt better, but something else that night hit me right between my eyes. It was a quote another friend put on Facebook which confirmed how my thought processes were completely off that day, “As I sit here and think back on my day that started badly, and through most of which I had a bad attitude, I realize it wasn’t a bad day after all.” 

So you see when you or I look around, there are all sorts of people struggling with all sorts of things. No matter what I struggle with it doesn’t diminish the struggles of others.

When I learn that, maybe my “bad” days might not turn out so bad after all.

Keeping the perspective,
Lauren