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This was my Monday
Monday night arrives and with it travels my thoughts, I review the experiences of my day. Always with firm purpose, I try to energize Mondays to give off good vibes and positivity for the whole week. But today has not been one of the best days, sometimes it happens, it is not the first time. Everything has been unexpected, hasty, and thoughtless. Despite getting up at the scheduled time, it did not flow as expected and I ended up being late for work.
The weather did its thing, it gave me a suffocating start in the morning with an oppressive and exhausting heat, and then surprisingly it rained a little. Far from alleviating the atmosphere, it exacerbated the temperature, reappearing again a bright sun. In the midst of the unsettled climatological ups and downs, the hope of the greeting of a rainbow arose in me. I longed and coveted with intensity, a parade of vivid and penetrating colors conquering the sky, but to my regret, they never came.
My clothes and shoes were a real mess, planned for a sunny day. The surprise rain, had me dodging the streets, jumping puddles in my pointy-toe sandals and dress, my wet hair was a total mismatch. All of me was in chaos, the good looks were gone. I was really upset and very annoyed.
I felt upset because I don't like to make others wait for me. As I walked to my destination, absorbed in my thoughts, I fantasized about what would happen and how I would meet inquisitive looks in complaint for my tardiness. How far from reality, on the contrary, I was greeted with a warm and affectionate welcome from those present, expressed by the pleasant deference of sympathetic glances, warm smiles, and cheerful faces.
I took five minutes and took deep breaths to balance myself, energizing my senses. The space of interaction flowed, exuded contentment and calm, evoking meanings and signifiers, in the integral simplicity of otherness. This day reinforced for me that I must flow and strengthen my capacity to adapt to unforeseen events, and that realities and actions intermingle as they are dynamic and changing.
At times, daily life simulates a false naturalness, conducted through repetitive activities, watertight routines that offer a disguised and underhanded security to evade the difference, giving shelter to the permanent. Our daily life is almost always unexpected and unforeseen in every way, with nuances and opportunities for extremes that can be terribly random or exquisitely calm. Empowered by external, sometimes uncontrollable factors. Those factors that if we allow it, limit us from a full life, the one that makes us happy.
In spite of our everyday life and our day-to-day life, we can experience, feel, and live at some point, atypically extraordinary events. That is what makes our existential journey called life unique, exquisite, and unrepeatable, I always keep in mind.
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