Sometimes there are situations where you are rushed. You need to catch a train or a bus and you’re late and hurrying to make it.
This happened to me today. I was late to catch my bus (or so I thought) and then I looked at my ticket time and it was another time entirely. It was 15 min earlier than I thought and with that new time I would never make it. I stopped and rushed into the next solution without analyzing and reworking my timetable or schedule and without really checking the current time (in a different time zone than I was in yesterday).
In the end I bought a ticket on the train and as I was on the train leaving and pulling out of the station I realized that due to my new time zone I was an hour earlier than I suspected and thus would have had plenty of time to catch my bus.
Moral of the story :”When things seem not to have gone the way you thought, look back before other action and see if there is a different way to perceive your outcome.”
If possible find a way of perceiving the situation that you like because it gives a meaningful meaning to something that otherwise would be disempowering.
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