9.17.2009

smile anyway...:-)

because i'm doing evening shift these days, i sleep till afternoon 3.30....day sleep already isn't as satisfying as night sleep.... and today my neighbours were boisterous. slept for hardly three hours... woke up to the noisy turbulent from the adjacent balcony... and i got mad.
sales rep who took my laptop order just wouldn't reply to emails... and i got mad. cause i needed the order number... to track the order online.
was dressing up for work... and to my dismay, i found my heels broken...and i got mad. i had bought a silver chain from fab india a couple days ago.... planned to wear it today, with my favourite dolphin pendant... guess what, the colours don't match. seriously! both silver... pure silver... but not the same colour...!! so, i got mad.
in the car, on my way to the office, the driver turned the radio on too loud, and in to some... god knows what kind of a channel... that irritated my ears to the core... so i got mad. very predictable traffic... just as i psyched, was jammed almost every fifty meters. oh what a day... i got really mad.
at work, i look at him (one of my colleagues).... and just a distant sight of him was enough to make me mad!...i tried avoiding him in all possible ways i can... unfortunately i bumped into him during dinner break... sat on the same table. and i really got mad when he picked a piece of chicken from my plate.... and ate it!!
strange isn't it?... everything seemed to get on my nerves... and i was literally slipping and sinking deep... suffocated by strings of crazy and unpleasant circumstances. i was getting mad at these circumstances... thought i didn't deserve them... until finally it occurred to me, that, getting mad did absolutely nothing but ruin my day.
this anger zone of mine wasn't doing anything to change the circumstances... so... i said i don't care what happened, what got me mad... i'm gonna smile anyway. and i chose not to let these crazy stuff ruin my day. i knew, though i couldn't change the things that happened... i can decide whether or not i'm gonna smile... whether or not i'm gonna let my day be ruined. and i decided i won't let the situations win... that they won't defeat my day... that they won't get me down again.
then i predicted it's gonna be a beautiful day... and simply turn the corners of my mouth and SMILE... heaviness lifted, anger banished... head lifted above the clouds... i felt great!
what i wanted to say... is, most of the times.... it only takes just a self reminder that, because one bad thing happened it doesn't mean your day is ruined, to bring back a smile on your face.... to make your day a beautiful one!!
let anything happens... we can choose to smile anyway.....:-)
God bless you all!! Have a beautiful day.... i'm gonna go get my dose of day sleep now...

6 comments:

  1. oh Ruthy.... your blog seems to speak right to my heart. such a darling you are, and so nice of you to be honest about how made you get... and thank you for taking the time to write about it..

    things that happen to one, when appropriately shared can be a lesson to learn, for some one else who is going through the same...

    Ruthy, what are you going to do about that colleague guy? do you decide to forgive him and befriend him? i'd be interested to know. because i face the same kinda issue with a few people around.
    love ya,:-))

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  2. this is da best blog i ever read....mam ur so close to every1....wat if dat guy(who ate ur chicken) reads ur blog?got mad jus b'coz he ate ur chichen...lol...eve shift?so sad...t.c bye..

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  3. evening shift?soo sad..mam u got mad jus b'coz he took ur chicken?lol...

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  4. @Alexis... yes forgiven him!! We have no choice, the word of God commands us to!. When our creator God has created him in His own image like He did us....and He loves him, treasures him, and holds him close, who am i to judge and decide to hate him?

    God is love and if we do not have the same love God has for the other person, then, we don't dare say we love God...that God lives in our hearts.

    I know its hard at times, but we ought to shed all our weaknesses at the feet of the Cross.seek Hin when we need strength... to carry one...be it forgiving others...loving others...

    thats part of carrying our own cross. those of us who cannot carry our cross cannot follow Him.

    ...and remember in the end its worth it all. the glory that we share with Him, when we meet Him, in that day....is incomparable.

    So, sweet Alexis,i'd be praying for you... say out loud that you choose today, to forgive and forget! You should also read David Wilkerson's Blog (one in my blog list)...

    p.s sorry had to reply here, ive yet to get your email...so don't know your mail id.

    God Bless,
    Love you!

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  5. @Razi... it was not for taking the chicken... lol!!! It was the manner(lessness) that i hated!

    I know evening shift is sad... but i'm getting use to it and enjoying it too. God bless!!

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  6. thank you thank you thank you!!

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