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This Will Make Your Day

May 17, 2015 by Diane

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If you place a call to, oh, say your mobile phone carrier, and the customer service rep asks for your name, and you tell her,

“Diane,”

and she asks,

“May I call you Miss Diane?”

and you say,

“I’d prefer to be called Your Highness,”

and she happily obliges!…

this will make your day.

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When you remember the gray cat you had as a child, the cat who suffered the indignities of wearing your doll clothes and riding around in your toy baby carriage, the cat who bounded out of the baby carriage wearing those same doll clothes to chase an annoying German Shepard up the road…

decades later, this memory will make your day.

* * *
When your parked car, your tiny Toyota Corolla, is hit by a beast of a big rig and tossed onto the curb like a toy, and the driver continues on his merry way without stopping, this will not make your day. But…

When a construction worker wearing clunky boots chases down the big rig, and this construction worker happens to be a photographer, and this photographer happens to take pictures of the guilty party and his driver’s license and insurance certificate, and happens to call the police to file a report, and then sticks his business card on your windshield so that you have all the information you need to recoup a portion of the cost of your now-totaled vehicle, you will be filled with such gratitude for this noble do-gooder (whose car was also hit by the big rig, and shoved twenty feet), it will make your day.

I know, because this just happened to me.

It doesn’t take much to turn a so-so day, a rotten day, a “why did I bother to get up” day into something wonderful. Not much at all.

A shared joke.

A memory.

A good deed.

The important thing is to be aware of these fleeting moments, and soak them in.

So if you’re feeling blue, or you’re spiraling down the anxiety rabbit hole, here’s my prescription: three times a day find something of beauty, or something to laugh about, or something to be grateful for, and soak it in.

That’s it.

Be aware, and soak it in.

And share it with somebody else.


10 Comments »

  1. Ben says:

    Is insurance going to cover everything? That is crazy. Thankfully you weren’t inside the car when it happened!

  2. Charli Mills says:

    Soaking it in! Amazing, the part about the noble do-gooder construction worker.

  3. Joan says:

    So sorry you have to go through this! Glad you know how to help yourself survive and even thrive through this!!!

    • Diane says:

      I’m putting an order into the universe that I need a car as good as mine was, within a week. I’m laying out all of the details, and expecting that my order will be fulfilled. How’s that for thriving?

      • Joan says:

        You do know that you are praying to God when you say that cuz who/what else can the”universe” be?

        • Diane says:

          Energy. Universal energy. Terms vary, depending on one’s belief.

          • Joan says:

            Isn’t that God? Guess I find it harder to believe that some energy is going to hear me than the God who created all the energy.its easier for me to believe in an entity of some sort.

          • Diane says:

            Ah-ha! You’ve given me inspiration for a future blog post.

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