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Noticing and Smiling Changed My Day For the Better
It was a bad day like any other until that moment…
Two days ago was a rather bad day. Nothing really awful, but still rather unpleasant. Work was fine but, of course, some problems needed to be handled.
Maybe it was because of the colleague I dislike. Maybe it was that mail I got from a client. Maybe it was because of the cold weather outside every time I went out for a smoke.
Either way, I was in a pretty bad mood. You know the kind I’m talking about, right? When you feel your day is pointless. When minutes feel like hours. When you picture your evening and realize you won’t have any time to relax. When even talking with people you like feels like a drain. That kind of mood.
In such situations, we are well aware of the bad mood we are in. But we push the realization away and mumble complaints to ourselves.
“My gosh, another one of those? Again?”
But then, 2:15 p.m. came around and woke me up from this maze.
“Hey, isn’t that cloud beautiful?”
It was there, outside my office window. A weird-looking cloud that looked like nothing but just felt beautiful.
