cranky pants

grrrr. I am cranky this morning!

I woke up happy, had breakfast happy, approached my office happy.

Then wham! Brought down by an unauthorised withdrawal from my bank account and a call-centre-guy with attitude (I swear I could hear the eye rolls and wait…did he really just sigh??)

I am very conscious of the idea that I can define the way I experience my world by the way I choose to interpret it. It’s not what others do that counts – I can’t affect that. All I can influence is my interpretation of external events.
But you know what? Sometimes I reckon it IS about other people. It IS that the person on the end of the line had a fight with his girlfriend or ran out of coco-pops or feels sick or is basically just rude.

And yet, even as I say that, I come back to a ‘yeh but’. Yeh but: I don’t have to let that figure in my experience today.

I’m going for a walk around the block.