How to Turn a Bad Day Into a Good Day
A bad day doesn’t have to go on and on being a bad day, it’s your day after all. Here’s how you can make it the way you want it to be.
I remember a day long ago when I was feeling down in the dumps. I woke up that morning with a feeling of dread. It was as if my mind was filled with darkness. I just knew that nothing good was going to happen that day. Sure enough, I had run out of toothpaste, and my mouth felt like the grit on the bottom of a birdcage. That was before I got to the breakfast table and discovered we were all out of bread and coffee. Then, of course, my train was late, so I was met by steely stares when I eventually rolled into work. Do you get the picture? You may have had days like that.
Anyway, at lunchtime, I was sitting on a bench in the park munching moodily on a sandwich when a pretty young lady came tripping along the path. I estimated she was about thirty years old. She had shiny brown hair and carried a small plastic lunch box in one hand and the other a leash at the end of which a black terrier was straining. She stopped by the bench and looked me straight in the eye. “May I sit here?” she asked with a polite smile.
“It’s a free world,” I muttered grumpily.
She plonked herself down, ordered the terrier to sit, and opened her lunchbox. Before she took the first bite…
