Ulog: Life Mantra | Choose Kindness

How many times have we said when we are having a bad day that we woke up on the wrong side of the bed. That we are experiencing a Murphy's law kind of day that everything can go wrong happens.

We were late in waking up because you spent all your time commenting last night. You lack sleep and without that cup of coffee, you feel that you will be a beast the entire day. You get to your favorite coffee shop and only to have your order created wrong and you take it out on the barista who was starting his first day.

You end up being more late and you see your boss look at you with disapproval as if you stole company funds.

You open your laptop and proceed to work but that look on your boss face still irks you and you read a report that was due yesterday. Only to find so many mistakes and you lost your patience and yelled at the person who did it from your chair without even looking at her direction. You end your tirade with the words "You are stupid!"

You stand up and decide to talk a walk in order to clear your head. Halfway into your walk, it starts to rain and you get drenched. You go back to the office with even a fouler mood.

Everyone tiptoes around you in the office the whole day. You eat alone and pray to just survive the day.

You go home and even your dog could feel the tension and decided to stay on his corner and sleep. You play a couple of games and let loose the aggression you feel to the noobs that unluckily was in the same game you are playing.

Then the noobs in your team also gets killed a lot costing the game and giving you the big L. You call it a night and thought you should have just stayed in bed.

Everything happened because you didn't get enough sleep and was a grade A asshole to the new barista.

In an away, your negative thinking and disposition attracted all sorts of negative things that day. So when I start my day I try to wake up with happy thoughts and with the things that I cannot change be accepting to it.

To the things that I can change, I often choose kindness.

It is often easier to just let our emotions loose and blurt out the first thing that enters our mind. Often times we tend to regret those and make the excuse that our emotions took hold of us.

To choose kindness is not an easy thing. Choosing to be kind amidst all the stress and issues takes a lot of effort and self-control.

To wake up late and choose to accept that you will be late. To seeing that the barista that fixed your coffee is a new face and you chat with him as he prepares your drink and you notice it is wrong so you correct him and say no harm done and that he will get better.

You see your boss and you tell her your sorry.

You find the report all wrong and past deadline and you call the person that made it. You notice her heavy eyebags and pale skin. She apparently slaved all night to finish it and although it was past due, she tried her best to submit it.

You think and ask her if she felt the project was too much and if she received the guidance from me to be able to complete it. She turns to you and tells you that she was afraid to say no and be seen as inept. She did realize that she was in over her head but she did her best.

You then give her pointers on what to do, what formula to use and tricks you have to make things easier. You finish the report together after an hour and you see that it is raining outside.

You go to have lunch and you are met with a hot bowl of chili that she orders for you because it is raining and she knows you love chili on rainy days.

She thanks you for the guidance and you know you did right. You go home with a feeling proud that she will be able to do the report on her own next time.

It turned out a wonderful day.

So this is my motivational post supporting Hive account@awakentolife's 🚂The Steem Engine's Writer's Corner - Theme Writing Challenge- Week 1- Write Your Own Motivational Post🚂 on how I would try in most situations to choose kindness. I am no saint and sometimes I still let my temper loose but through the years I have mellowed and able to reign in my temper better.