One of those days

Do you ever have those days when a whole lot of stuff just goes wrong? Yes, I know you do. Don’t lie to me.

Those are the days when you discover your car’s tires need replacing, but you can’t find the time to get to the shop and you need the car every day anyhow. Then your cell loses its ability to recognize your voice for texting; you type instead and promptly lose a glove. Your email locks you out. And so on. Death by a thousand tiny cuts.

It drives us all nuts, of course.

Unless you decide to treat it as a reminder. All these things are gentle nudges telling us just how good we have it when it all works perfectly. These are things we take for granted when we should take them for gratitude. And then we realize that we can, actually, survive without all these things being perfect.

So next time this happens think of them as being like having slightly less icing on your cake today, slightly less cream in your coffee. You’ll be just fine. Trust me.