11. Laugh at yourself.
Most of my lessons have been years in the
making. I have lived through multiple episodes of the same plot resulting in
the same lesson. (I’m hard headed). But this lesson came as an epiphany. Let me
set the scene for you.
I have been planning the largest canned
food drive at my beloved Ohio University. The logistics of this event are
similar to fixing the haircut we all tried to give ourselves when we were
three. You can keep trimming away the details, but there will always be those
inevitable loose ends. I won’t bore you with more, but let’s just say on this
particular day, I had lifted well over 1,300 canned foods, spilled horrid mushroom
soup down my front, and accidentally punched a cabinet. I felt like the bird in
that Windex commercial that is tricked into thinking the glass door is actually
an open window.
So after slamming into my day and sliding down
the window in slow motion, I hit the ground. I walked into my apartment, took
my pants off, and made hot dogs. I turned on Law & Order SVU and dug into
my mustard covered feast. It was two hot dogs in that I put down my fork and
just started giggling at myself. My giggles turned to belly laughs and my belly
laughs turned into full-on, teary-eyed cackling. At this point, the tears were
rolling down my cheeks and it was literally becoming difficult to take a deep
breath…
I mean, come on! Here I am sitting in my
living room with no pants on eating bun-less hot dogs watching Detective Benson
do her thing. I had a hundred things I should have been doing. But I wasn’t
worried about them. My biggest concern was my roommate walking in and checking
me into a mental institution.
We’ve all had these moments. You may have
had pants on in yours. You may have been 20 feet below sea level. Or have just
realized your fly was unzipped for the entirety of your day. But either way,
enjoy that moment of just doing as you feel and having the ability to realize
sometimes you’re an absolute oddball. After all, if all of us are oddballs, then really none of us are odd at all...
it’s an outlet. it’s an
inspiration. it’s a gift. it’s a purpose
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