Always look for positives
Joe Stender Perspectives Editor
Issue date: 2/11/09 Section: Opinion
We all have them, there is no way that you can avoid them and when they attack, they attack fast and without mercy. No, I am not talking about some type of ferocious animal or a very mean and abusive person, what I am talking about is bad days.
Bad days seem like they will never end and also seem to get worst as they go. The start of a bad day could start as harmlessly as over-sleeping, but they could end with you seriously questioning if you have any motivation left to do anything.
Like a fire, all bad days need is a spark to start them. The spark could be a rude comment or you forgetting to do something important; once the spark is made, everything else is just firewood. Any little thing can make you blow up into a full-out bon fire.
I recently had one of these bad days where I felt like doing nothing, but had so much to get done in a short amount of time. You see, this weekend I was having some fun with my friends back home and played a little tackle football. This is a common activity for us and though we may wakeup a little sore, nothing really bad ever happens.
Well, this was not the case this time around. The day started out great, it was warm and the energy was high. By the time that we showed up to the field, we realized that we had failed to recognize that since it was so warm, the snow was melting and creating large puddles all over the place.
We decided to still play, I mean, what is the worst that could happen. As it turned out, I was tackled multiple times into the largest puddle on the field; seriously, this puddle was the size of the Susquehanna River.
I understood that there was a chance of getting the sniffles, but never expected the horrible feeling that would soon become a reality.
I still had to write a five page paper, a ten page rough draft and this very perspectives column that you are currently reading. I thought that I would never get these things over with; everything that I wrote did not make sense after re-reading it and my body ached from my head to my toes.
Bad days seem like they will never end and also seem to get worst as they go. The start of a bad day could start as harmlessly as over-sleeping, but they could end with you seriously questioning if you have any motivation left to do anything.
Like a fire, all bad days need is a spark to start them. The spark could be a rude comment or you forgetting to do something important; once the spark is made, everything else is just firewood. Any little thing can make you blow up into a full-out bon fire.
I recently had one of these bad days where I felt like doing nothing, but had so much to get done in a short amount of time. You see, this weekend I was having some fun with my friends back home and played a little tackle football. This is a common activity for us and though we may wakeup a little sore, nothing really bad ever happens.
Well, this was not the case this time around. The day started out great, it was warm and the energy was high. By the time that we showed up to the field, we realized that we had failed to recognize that since it was so warm, the snow was melting and creating large puddles all over the place.
We decided to still play, I mean, what is the worst that could happen. As it turned out, I was tackled multiple times into the largest puddle on the field; seriously, this puddle was the size of the Susquehanna River.
I understood that there was a chance of getting the sniffles, but never expected the horrible feeling that would soon become a reality.
I still had to write a five page paper, a ten page rough draft and this very perspectives column that you are currently reading. I thought that I would never get these things over with; everything that I wrote did not make sense after re-reading it and my body ached from my head to my toes.
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