This morning as I was walking to campus the weather was very gloomy. The gray clouds and the rain puddles really brought down my mood. It trigger a feeling of being glum and bummed out. It has been a long week so this made it feel like my Friday was going to be that much harder to get through. This was clearly not a positive emotion on a bipolar scale. It also did not help that while walking to a meeting I stepped in a mud puddle. I got mud on both my shoes and my pants. At first this triggered a feeling of frustration but it actually got better quite quickly.
I happened to get to the building early and I had time to clean off my shoes. I also remembered that I had a Tide To-Go stick in my backpack. As the mud stain on my pants faded so did a lot of my gloomy feelings. It made me realize that there was no need to be bothered by the weather. I remembered that it is almost the weekend and I learned not to let a little bit of mud ruin my morning.
No comments:
Post a Comment