Life Goes On
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. " ~Robert Frost
They always say that into every life a little rain may fall. Yesterday felt as if someone was standing over my head with a bucket. If every life gets rain, yesterday was my monsoon! There are days and then there are THOSE days. Everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong.
All at the same time oldest child had first teenage meltdown, I was rushing home from school to meet air conditioning guy as the home had become a perfect sauna sans air conditioning and while he was working on that something I was working on for work was blowing up. Husband away on duty took the early flight home so he could help, and needed to be picked up from the airport at the exact same moment as everything else was happening. Not to mention the dog was crossing her legs in hopes of getting outside to do her business.
I'm not a complainer. It is my personal belief that my bad day doesn't have to be anyone else's and I keep my rants to myself. Yesterday I had to vent and the poor person on the other end of my tirade was the air conditioner man. It started out simply as a "how is it all going" check in while he fixed the component and ended up with a "you won't believe how horrible my day has been." Halfway through my soliloquy I realized that the air conditioner guy was smiling at me. "What did I say that was funny", I asked. HIs reply was that nothing was funny, and however horrible I felt my day was, he just couldn't see it. Puzzled I stared at him. He was the one, after all, who was standing in the rain and wind fixing my air conditioner, greasy hands and dirty fingernails, sweat pouring down his face.
Air conditioner guy stopped what he was doing and stood up. He reached in his pocket and pulled out various items, keys, wrench, another wrench and then a velvet bag. He went on to explain that today was the day that he was going to propose to his girlfriend. He had been carrying the ring in the pouch all day and the closer it got to the end of the workday the more excited he was about the proposal. I stood there, speechless.
In the daily bustle of things, it is easy to forget that these days are special. Today is someone's birthday, anniversary, first day as a new parent, first day of school, first lost tooth. Today someone learned to walk, swim, speak, fly. Today, someone will get engaged and someone will get married. Today someone will be born. Some of the most precious moments that my husband and I have as a military couple are the times when we have visited a new family in the hospital. The looks on the faces of the service members and their spouses as they held their babies are still fresh in my memory.
In the midst of chaos, life still goes on. Thank God for that.
They always say that into every life a little rain may fall. Yesterday felt as if someone was standing over my head with a bucket. If every life gets rain, yesterday was my monsoon! There are days and then there are THOSE days. Everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong.
All at the same time oldest child had first teenage meltdown, I was rushing home from school to meet air conditioning guy as the home had become a perfect sauna sans air conditioning and while he was working on that something I was working on for work was blowing up. Husband away on duty took the early flight home so he could help, and needed to be picked up from the airport at the exact same moment as everything else was happening. Not to mention the dog was crossing her legs in hopes of getting outside to do her business.
I'm not a complainer. It is my personal belief that my bad day doesn't have to be anyone else's and I keep my rants to myself. Yesterday I had to vent and the poor person on the other end of my tirade was the air conditioner man. It started out simply as a "how is it all going" check in while he fixed the component and ended up with a "you won't believe how horrible my day has been." Halfway through my soliloquy I realized that the air conditioner guy was smiling at me. "What did I say that was funny", I asked. HIs reply was that nothing was funny, and however horrible I felt my day was, he just couldn't see it. Puzzled I stared at him. He was the one, after all, who was standing in the rain and wind fixing my air conditioner, greasy hands and dirty fingernails, sweat pouring down his face.
Air conditioner guy stopped what he was doing and stood up. He reached in his pocket and pulled out various items, keys, wrench, another wrench and then a velvet bag. He went on to explain that today was the day that he was going to propose to his girlfriend. He had been carrying the ring in the pouch all day and the closer it got to the end of the workday the more excited he was about the proposal. I stood there, speechless.
In the daily bustle of things, it is easy to forget that these days are special. Today is someone's birthday, anniversary, first day as a new parent, first day of school, first lost tooth. Today someone learned to walk, swim, speak, fly. Today, someone will get engaged and someone will get married. Today someone will be born. Some of the most precious moments that my husband and I have as a military couple are the times when we have visited a new family in the hospital. The looks on the faces of the service members and their spouses as they held their babies are still fresh in my memory.
In the midst of chaos, life still goes on. Thank God for that.
Tearing up again!
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