Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Disappointment With Joy

I awakened this morning to the sound of my sister knocking on my door with breakfast. She and I were going house hunting for her, but before we left I wanted to check my bank and see my first check from retirement.

It wasn't there! A call confirmed that it would not be there until July 15th, which is standard policy. Except, that had anyone mentioned this when I told them I needed the money to start June 1st, I would have done things differently.

Now I get to see how calm, peaceful and collected I can be under real stress. I am trying to greet this disappointment with joy. It is not like I am going to starve, or suffer torture, or be seriously hurt because of it. At the most it will be an inconvenience that I may be able to circumvent in various creative ways.

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