We all know the usual case of Murphy's law. It often shadows our lives creating unexpected events and havoc.
But then there are the days where you, yourself, are on rare form at doing silly things and in effect Murphy takes a back seat because you are doing his job for him.
I had one of those days this week, where Murphy could happily take the day off or plague somebody else's life.
This is how it started . . . I am up and about early, having had a horrible nights sleep, because of a sinus migraine. But I proudly manage to pull myself together and get ready in record time. I head out the door, early, hop into the car and I'm off.
Just as I start driving up my road, I realise things are looking slightly blurry. I spray my windscreen with water and swish the wipers. But its still blurry. So I take my sun glasses off, they are a bit dirty. I wipe them and put them back on. Still blurry. Remove glasses. Repeat process. Same thing. Repeat glasses cleaning one more time. Repeat windscreen washing. By now I am at the end of my road and at the stop sign. It suddenly dawns on me, I had not put my contact lenses it, hence the blurry vision.
I dash home, grab my spare prescription glasses and head off to work, by now I am running on time. I am back on the road, dodging pedestrians and marveling at how quiet the traffic is. No, it wasn't a weekend but it is school holidays which means no traffic, which means I could have left home half an hour later and still been on time for work.
So that is how my day started, and I can honestly say it continued in the same frame, with no help from Murphy at all. Driving home, I was musing at what a day it had been, and an old favorite song came on...immediately I start singing, "Jackie" but no, the name in the song wasnt "Jackie" it was "Marvin". Perfect way to end the day, I thought, by completely butchering a classic song. I mean how did I confuse those two names, they are nowhere near similar.
Of course by the time I had finished lambasting myself, the second verse started with the word "Jackie"..... ha ha ha ha.... so in the end I was right.
We all have those days. They make for silly stories and we can choose to either have a good giggle about it, and share it with others so they can laugh at/with us. Or we can choose to be grumpy and frustrated.
But one thing I did learn in the early morning blurriness. . . sometimes the external circumstances are not the problem, but the way you view/see is.
