hopes for a good ending...

During the week, every day starts off the same. Snooze the alarm as many times as you can until you absolutely have to awaken. Check all social media before you finally force yourself out of that seemingly small piece of heaven. Usually this part of the day is rather routine. So much so that you probably do everything without any thought or hesitation. Then comes the unpredictable...work.
Some days it may be uneventful and just another 8 to 5. Others it may be uplifting; you did something right or changed someone's life. But on the worst days it is absolutely draining. You forgot to do something and have double the workload; you have to deal with a disgruntled customer or employee; you work your tail off without recognition. Oh you know what I am talking about. Now why is it that out of all of these, I seem to focus on the worst days? Allowing it to trump all the good moments previously encountered.
In life, I think it is much easier for us to complain rather than change. To blame things on others than ourselves. It is easier to ingest the negative than exude the positive. The roads to happiness seem too long or too wide. You try and try with no clear sign of any resolution. You have too many lanes pulling you this way and that way. So why not focus on the construction, the detours? Because it is killing our soul.
I find that when I am upset at work, I seem to be negative towards everyone that I come in contact with, usually for no reason at all. Eyes are rolled, curse words become more prevalent, and somehow my fingers are 100 pounds heavier on the keyboard. By the time I punch out, I am just emotionally and physically exhausted.
However, there is one thing that relinquishes my hope of overall happiness; a good story. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely hate to read. I am simply saying any story with a great ending; a television show, a movie, a song. Everyone always says, "things don't happen like they do in the movies" but what if they do? What if the only thing keeping us from having that extraordinary story ourselves is the inability to allow it to happen? If we continue to focus on the negative things, how will we be able to see the positive ones? "The glass is stained with pain and suffering, you can choose to stare at the stain or the beauty at what lies beyond." I can never seem to get enough of that quote, yet I have a hard time following it.
So here is to looking forward. Pausing at times of frustration to limit negative behavior. Here is to change, because as a great woman once said, "I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles." (Just have to love Audrey Hepburn).