Happy Friday my friends–this week flew by for me, I don’t know about you. Whenever we have a holiday on a Monday, it always seems to do that! Anyways, let chat shall we?
So, this morning on my way to work, I was cruising on the Pike, listening to a Ted Talk just like any other day and I was about 20 miles away from work and all of a sudden out of nowhere there was grid lock traffic. We were stopped dead in our tracks. I started looking at my Waze app which was now telling me that I was not going to get to work at my normal time due to this delay. I started to get really annoyed, this was not how I wanted to start my Friday off. After about 15 minutes of sitting on the highway, barely moving I started calculating at what point would I be so late to work that I wouldn’t be able to get a work out in before I had to be in the office. This, more than anything, was my biggest motivator for wanting this traffic to move along.
Then, there were sirens everywhere, I lost count of the number of state troopers, ambulances and fire trucks that were flying by in the break down lane. My heart sank. Here I was pissed off that there was all this traffic because I was going to be late for my morning workout when clearly, something terrible had happened. How selfish was that? I mean, at least I was safe in the confines of my warm car. Talk about an early morning dose of perspective!
About 20 minutes later I passed the wreck, it was awful. There was a mangled tractor trailer, a small sedan car that was crushed and two other cars loaded on the flat bed of a tow truck. I couldn’t see anything but swarms of first responders but clearly, it wasn’t a good situation.
I spent the rest of my drive into work beating myself up about being so selfish. I mean, I know that a lot of us would have gotten annoyed that our plans were derailed since I know so many of us are very structured and have our routines everyday, but clearly, what I wanted did not matter this morning and once I saw those cars, all I wanted was for the people in the accident to be okay.
I think every once in a while, we need something to remind us that we are just tiny pieces of a much larger puzzle out there in the world. This perspective is really helpful and helps us grow. Needless to say, I was super late to the office this morning and I didn’t get to workout, but when I find myself throughout the day feeling off (which will no doubt happen,) I will remind myself that I made it to work safe which is clearly the most important thing!
Whatever you do this weekend, have fun and be safe! We have a very special weekend planned, kicking off with Ashton’s birthday party tomorrow! Stay tuned for lots of pics next week (or via Instagram if you follow me over there!)
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Question of the day
What lately has given you perspective?
What are your plans for the weekend?
