In my world, most of my days are filled with joy, laughter, and happiness. Each day containing hope and optimism that good things are gonna get better. Days that absolutely everything is the best. You wake up to a warm sunny sun, as happy birds dance and sing a joyful tune. You find your favorite pair of pants that have been missing for the last week, later on your team wins the big game and you discover that Dr. Pepper with a little kiss of lemonade creates a very tasty combo move. Your friend gives you back the money he owes you and then some. Your angry crotchety neighbor moves to Russia. At work you get a bonus check just for being alive. To top it off that really hot girl you like at Applebee’s left you her number right next to a smiley face. :) Oh those days. Yes please. Then you have the Bad Day.
No Thank You. Bad days or as I call them ” I don’t care for this” days are a part of life.
You wake up and the world hates you. You roll out of bed and miss the floor. You burn the toast, stub your toe, and the dog pees everywhere. While you notice that the Tv is showing emergency routes out-of-town. It takes what feels like a day to find your keys, when in reality it was only five minutes and they were in your pocket the whole time. You pull out of your driveway only to notice that your neighbor is back from Russia. At work you lose the big sale, and accidentally spill hot coffee on your boss’s supervisor. During a presentation you give that everybody,even the janitor cleaning up your mess, votes against. After work you go to a nice restaurant in hopes that you will have a great date with that really special girl but she never shows. :( On the way home you get a flat tire as it starts pouring down freezing rain. You finally make it home and collapse into your favorite chair. Then your chair collapses under you. Leaving you lying on the floor like a wounded sea lion. Those days. Those bad days.
Bad days can be hard. Bad days can be rough. Bad days can be enough to make you want to pack it up an say goodbye to it all. If this is you and you want to quit DON’T. I am here for you. If you are going through a bad day take my hand, you wonderful sexy individual and follow me and we will get through this together.
A bad day is inescapable as a given example: one seventh of your life is lived on Mondays. Still a bad day doesn’t have to be the end of all that rocks. One time not to long ago I was robbed twice probably by the same person, in the span of fifteen minutes. I went into the greatest store on earth ( Barnes & Noble ) and when I came out my back window was completely smashed. My window looked like it got into a fight with a Mac truck and lost. The recipient of my unknowing charity, took my laptop and a watch that I got for my sixteenth birthday. I went back into Barnes & Noble to get a police officer. When I came out the second time my right window was smashed. This time the theft of the day got my GPS and a cd that read ” Sinners in the hands of a loving God”. The police officer that showed up told me that all days are good days it’s just that some are better than others. I believe this to be true. So to handle a bad day but everything into perspective. Yes you may have a hair day that would make Chewbacca flinch, but life is going to keep going and in the going it is going to get even better.
Know that you are loved. Yes you, as you ride the waves of life. It may feel like you are broken and have no idea where you are or how you got here. Which is fine. Really. Congratulations!! You fit right in. We live in a broken world filled with broken people, who have no idea what their next move is and what they are doing. It is the cool thing to do!! The good news is that for all that you are, someone loves you for you. Even if it’s only God and your Great Aunt Sue, love reminds you, your never alone.
In the pain of a bad day healing can be found by holding on to hope. Hope is a powerful four letter word, more powerful than @8#?,$7€*,and ¥•!) put together. Hope is like red neck duct tape for a shattered heart. Hope is that force that keeps you going no matter how bad it is. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Don’t Stop. Go as far as you can see and you will always be able to see farther. Hope is God’s passion bottled into an emotion that we can all experience. Live in the experience. In the history of the world there has never been a day like today. Find that hope in yourself. The hope that is living freedom against fear and worry.
When things are going everything but right have hope. Good things fall apart so that even better things can fall together. Hold on to hope. Hope is life. When the sky and everything sucky is falling down,hold on to life. Have faith in hope. A hope that says every setback is just a setup for a comeback.
The fastest way to turn a bad day into an awesome day is to help someone else who is having a bad day. Even though when a bad day kicks you in the face the last thing you want to do is to be around human life. Still When you help others you will be amazed by how happy you are afterwards. At the very least it brings me comfort to know that I am not the most screwed up person in the world.
A few years ago I broke a woman’s toe at RubyTuesdays. I didn’t do it on purpose but it happened. I kicked her and she wasn’t wearing proper protective footwear. The point is that in my bad day my manager was super supportive by saying and I quote “Don’t worry about it David, she still has nine more toes.” At the time I didn’t feel like he was as concerned about the seriousness of the situation of the broken toe as he should have been. But it was in that moment that fear went away. And it worked out, I didn’t get sued and the lady got a nice little cast on her toe that I unfortunately never got to sign.
When it hurts, smile. Smiling is the rallying cry for your soul. The more teeth you flash the less it will feel like the world has jumped on your shoulders.
When I was in the fourth grade I performed in a drama play. I was a giant calculator. I was super jacked up on excitement and had practiced for months as I had one of the main parts. My brother who is two years younger than me created my costume which was a bunch of cardboard thrown together with a tiny piece of string holding it all in place. During my performance on the big night about two minutes in. In front of what felt like a million people. Someone sitting in the back sneezed and the wind from the sneeze snapped my string and my outfit came crashing down like the Titanic. I was petrified. The kids around me tried to pull up my cardboard costume to where it was supposed to be, but the damage was done. Call the mayor of Suckville, I was officially having a bad day.
It was in this moment of my young life that I made a decision. I decided to make the best out of the mess. So with one hand I held up my costume and with the other hand I pushed my buttons. I ended up performing what I still believe to be the most heroic 4th grade drama performance at Kenwood Elementary School ever. That is what you have to do Ms. or Mr. fantastic. You have to do to your bad day what I do to junk mail, tear it up.
Be in control. You are the superstar in the movie that is your bad day. You may be going down but go down in style. You are writing the story of you. A story that is worth living. This is your time to shine. So keep having perspective, know your loved, hold on to hope, help others, smile and live your story.
In life there are good days and there are bad days. I ultimately believe the bad days make the good days that much more special. So enjoy the day!
- DAVID HARVEY
