Life can be funny sometimes. They way things work out or sometimes the way they don’t. Sometimes things may go wrong or just turn out differently to the way we thought they would. It is important in life to remain positive, sometimes even when everything is going wrong and you feel like you’re losing your mind . Something good or unexpected can happen. Regardless of how my day, week, month or even year is going I always try to enjoy the moment and take those small victories. They can come in many forms, from finding money on the ground to a promotion, a kind word from a stranger to praise from someone you know. I can really be anything, all you have to do is notice it and take the time to enjoy it even if it is just a moment in time. Those that have endured understand that even just a moment to breathe, a light in the darkness, a laugh through your tears. It is these moments that give you the strength to hope for something more.
My ability to calmly navigate bad situations or be emotionless in the presents of adversity have always confused and angered others. As I hide my emotions while others wear them like clothes. It is not that I don’t feel I do, but I was bought up by a father who did not believe that boys cry. If ever I cried when I was younger I was told to stop crying you’re not a girl. As a result I very rarely cry and if I do it is in private and even then I try to hide it from anyone. I am of course older now and understand that it is ok for boys or even Men to cry , but old habits die hard and even though I can give advice to others that it is ok for boys to cry, I still hide my emotions.
Anyway I stayed from the point I was trying to make there that we should take time to enjoy the moment and the small victories.
I have had quite a few things go wrong in the lead up to our holiday and could easily have been sad the whole time or even pushed the whole thing later in the year. But this was something the whole family was look toward. As hard as it was to step a at from my job and have a holiday, to go on a holiday with uncertainty hanging over issues at home. I am still glad we pushed forward and went on the holiday even if it ended up costing even more then it should due to alternative arrangements we had to make with travel.
We still have a few days to go. But it has been good to catch up with our family up here. We do not get a lot of time to spend with them as they live a long way away and it costs a lot in travel to visit them. Whilst Darwin is a beautiful place it was never a holiday for site seeing but to spend time with the ones we love. The memories we have made and the time we spent up here will stick in our minds for a long time. The time to reset and just breathe in a time when we have had a lot of things go wrong has been invaluable.
I think that at least one of the issues should be fixed by time we get back home. Some of the other things will have to be worked on and I am positive that they can be fixed over time.
Now let me share a funny story from today when we went to go to a Supermarket market down the road near where we were staying . We had been there and had forgotten something and had to go back to get the couple of items we had forgotten to buy. We went back to what we thought was the same supermarket that we had just been to in a plaza, only to realise when we entered the supermarket that it was an entirely different plaza. I said to my daughter “I don’t remember these shops, are you sure we are in the same place?” She said “I don’t think we are”, as we saw the supermarket we were looking for. “Oh it’s ok the supermarket is right here” I said “ we must have come in through a different entrance”
Upon going into the supermarket though it was evident that we had come to a different supermarket with the same name though. It was a lot older and run down.
We had a great laugh to ourselves about going to a different dimension or the b grade supermarket. Only to discover that we had gone to a plaza on the opposite side of and intersection to the plaza we had been to previously. This just made us laugh more.
Anyways I hope that you had a great day!