I had a rough day yesterday. Not a bad day because I’m trying to avoid the word bad in my vocabulary, but a rough, tough, dragged out and beat up behind the barn with a baseball bat kind of day. We all have them and throughout the course of a year we tend to have a few depending on what is going on in life.
I will not go into the details but I will say this – sometimes life just drags you down. There are days when nothing seems to be going right and when those days appear (usually it’s immediately after you say the words ‘today is going to be a good day’), I don’t know about you but I have a really hard time getting my mind off discouraging thoughts.
Sadly, when days like yesterday happen for me, everyone in the family feels it. My wife was home for a day from her job and kept looking at me wondering what could possibly make me look and feel like I had just witnessed a whole bus of children drive straight into a lake. My sons now recognize the signs of a bad day on my face and the way my shoulders slump and avoid me like I’m the technology police come to remove all communication and digital devices from our home and throw them in a bonfire. Nothing seemed to be going in my favor.
Have you ever had one of those days? A dozen of those days?
Well, here are some things that I think YOU should do when you’re having one of those days. Some of them are good for just releasing tension. Some of these things are not for the lighthearted. All of them are an invention of my imagination.
1) Eat soap
2) Drive to a farm and dance your heart out in the middle of a pig sty
3) Find a frozen lake and jump in
4) Go skiing – with your skies on backwards
5) Go snowboarding – on your stomach face first
6) Drive to WalMart and tell everyone you see, “They let me out of the psych hospital”
7) Drive to the Psych Hospital and ask them to please let you in
8) Buy a 32oz. Slurpee and drink it as fast as you can
9) Put a whole can of shaving cream in your hair and leave it there
10) Act out a scene from Macbeth at a busy bus stop
11) Ride a horse backwards
12) Stand in a corner facing the wall for an hour while your kids pelt you with candy
13) Shave your hair off
14) Glue your hair back on
15) Shave your eyebrows off
16) Donate your eyebrows to a doll factory for doll hair replacements
17) Fill your pockets with frozen peas and leave them there all day
18) Empty the peas from your pockets and make split pea soup
19) Shower with all of your clothes on
20) Air dry with your clothes on after your shower
21) Call a mortuary and tell them you’re not dead yet
22) Stand in the middle of a busy mall and shout “I’m the king of the world!”
23) Ride a tricycle to work
24) Try to ‘plank’ a fire hydrant
25) Hug someone you love and tell them that tomorrow we’ll start all over again
WARNING: PLEASE if you haven’t already guessed, you should NOT take any of these things seriously. These are just some of the things I think of and laugh out loud to myself because the thought of doing any of these things is just silly. Rough days, yes even bad days are hard to overcome but they can be. So please try to find the humor in every situation.
It could be worse!
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*laughing* I read your 25 things & thought oh crap! I did #1 minus the soap, #2 minus the pigs & #13!!! It can get worse & bad days always get better! Hope your day was better than yesterday.
It was a great day. Thanks so much and I’m glad you enjoyed this post!
i LOVE YOU MY brutha from anutha mutha…you are meant to be in my life at this time to boost me up when I’m feeling down. I so believe it Seti. Your blog as I have told u in the past has helped me so much to pull through at times when I didn’t feel like I could make it. today was my rough day and it was a doozy. thanks for making me giggle and laugh and realize that things could be worse. hugs and alofaagas your way,
cyn,
giggling….ah brother…of mine from another mother…how appropriate this blog post is for me today. I had a really rough day physically, mentally, emotionally. my poor boyfriend took the brunt of my anger at the world and bless his heart kept coming back for more. He’s a keeper…and you are one of a kind. I am thankful to my Heavenly father for blessing you with this talent to blog when you feel inspired to because guess what…bro…it was needed by someone like me.
much alofas for always strengthening me through your writing…you will never know or realize the impact you have had and continue to be in my life as I read and follow your inspired blogs. truly inspirational for me and life changing. you know what i am referring to as well — last year….
alofas,
cyn
It’s so good when you have someone to share in your pain, right? Here’s hoping that you’re having a much better day today and that tough days ahead will be overshadowed by the blessed ones.
Let me know bro…. I’ll be standing by with the straight jacket & some prn. LOL. Those are the people I see at work everyday! LOL.
Thanks for this blog. I was having that sort of a day today. Can’t believe how stressful it is getting a birthday dinner together for my family. So many things went wrong. The birthday boy finds his gift in my bag before I wrapped it, the 49er cake was orange and peach instead of red gold and white, *sighs* etc. etc. Anyways, you have impeccable posting time. Right on time!
Much Mahalo Seti
Family gatherings are always stressful, especially if you’re hosting. Nothing seems to go right in your mind but I would wager that your family didn’t even notice and if you were to ask, they would all say that they had a wonderful time. Mahalo for sharing and better days ahead!
Funny! Keep your chin up.
Bro, I try to keep my chin up but I’m afraid someone is gonna clock me and knock me right out LOL – you’re a great example and I feel blessed to count you as a friend.
Loved this posting Seti! So needed to read something like this today especially! What a crapfest of a day I tell you! (Oops scusie da lingo!) But today I felk like well you know that African proverb: “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors” … Yeah, I hate that proverb today! 😉 Who says I wanna be a skilled sailor!? I’m one who prefers to just float along in my rinky-dink lil outrigger canoe, in those calm clear blue Polynesian waters… Oh man… think I just spotted a leak in my canoe! Se tangnammit!!! Will definitely read & reread your top 25… to silence the screaming 125 alternatives I have on a list!
In closing I would like to share the following quote from Author Unknown & will pray for a mountain instead: “Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.” Peace out brother!