Sick Shift Musing

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This made me smile today, so I thought I'd share it with you

Hey friends! How was your day?

Mine was kind of hectic. I called in sick to work (because I am in the dark swirling depths of poorly-ness at present), and ended up there anyway. 'Understaffed' and 'overbooked' are my least favourite words when put together during a morning briefing.
Anyhu, fast forward 7 and a half hours, I had a few pleasant realisations that I'm glad of. Last night was the celebration of one my lovely flatmate's birthdays, and she got le plastered. She reappeared around 3am with a gentleman of similar sobriety (none) and promptly vommed all over one of the bathroom floors. Long story short, I stayed up nursing her a little, even though I, myself, am rather ill, and ordering and feeding her pizza, and politely asked the night guest to leave. By the time I got to bed properly, I had a few hours of sleepy time left before I needed to be up for work. And I didn't mind.
And today at work, I was hopelessly grotty within myself because it just felt like one of those days. You know the ones...tired, ill, grouchy, everything-is-against-me type days. And "those days" do happen...but today wasn't really one of them. I realised, mid-serving a cucumber martini, that my inner grumpiness may've permeated my polite, cool and professional (I hope) waitress mode. And none of the customer's had ever done anything to me beyond asking for a drink I have to run into the other restaurant to grab! Why be grumpy, and let those bad vibes into the world around me when I could be calm and smiley inside?
What's so wrong with helping other people when they need you, like when my flatmate needed just a little bit o' (flatemately) tenderness? And what's so wrong with, instead of letting frustrating things consume you, treating them as they are- temporary?
I've somewhat lost where I was going with this, but the core of this is that if it feels like it's one of those days, have hope. Because "those days" are quite often defined by us, and once we label it "one of those", we're in the mindset that things will only get worse. Quote to sum it up: It's a bad day, not a bad life.

And it may just be a bad hour, or minute, or shift. No day is wholly, unforgivably bad. So keep your chins up, you beautiful people.