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Just when you thought you had a totally
overwhelming day: Kumbe the cats and dogs had not been let out yet.
It’s ok to have a crappy day. No one deserves
it but it’s bound to happen and when it does happen, you need to face it like
it’s your last day under the sun. Don’t let vagabonds dance on your already
ruined moods. Dust yourself and try again. Don’t quit, don’t allow it eat you
up.
You wake up perfectly ok but as soon as you get
into the shower and of course with your eyes shut since the alarm couldn’t stop
blaring, you realize that actually it’s not your eyes that are shut but the
lights are off. If you are like me you will operate with one eye half open… You
curse in hushed tones because now you will have to take a cold bath. This is
not because you can’t warm some water on the heater but gas run out yesterday
as you were trying to mix some quick light pasta for diner. Damn!!!
Oh well, no one has ever died over taking a
cold shower, tap on and wallah! No water in the taps because apparently it
wasn’t pumped overnight due to power outage. Could it get any worse? In the
back of your mind, the boss in the office starts haunting you. Clocking in has
never been your favourite bit of the morning because it requires that you are
in the office by eight else you risk losing the hard earned position due to
time management.
Now both eyes alert and time rushing like it so
badly wants you to lose it all, you rush to the water storage bucket, get
kidogo water to do passport and you rush and dress up praying soo hard that you
manage to catch a bus. You step out straightening your hair and unfortunately
it’s one of those July mornings where rain pours effortlessly and
unapologetically. You rush through to the bus stop amidst all the downpour and fortunately
you manage a backseat in one of those very loud matatus which is already soaked
from the leakages. But for the sake of paying bills in a few days on, you
toughen up and sit with your soaked wet suit. Traffic snarl up and ofcos
tripled bus fare. Having you fingers crossed and saying the Lord’s prayer which
you totally couldn’t remember because you barely pray opens doors and traffic
flows and you manage to get to the office just in time. Looking as if a huge,
fluffy elephant has trotted on you, you sign in and dash to the washroom to try
clean up else even your crash in the office will not want to be seen with you.
As you continue sorting the mess you reach for your wallet and realize you
didn’t obtain your change from the conductor. Damn!!! You paid for at least
half the bus. Could it get any worse? You can’t comprehend why the morning was
becoming soo terrible and tears threaten to come rushing out.
It’s never that serious but this is becoming
too much for one person to handle. The pileup on your desk is crazy thanks to
your dear boss who committedly arrives at six every day. Stacks for you to
deal, but you have dealt with bigger stacks. The events of the morning reel in
your head and unfortunately you can’t comprehend why it had to be you. For that
day unless you get a sponsor, lunch kaput courtesy of your forgetful self.
As you prepare to go take a walk over lunchtime
so that you don’t have to seat in the office for a grueling one hour with
everyone asking why you haven’t gone for lunch as is your tradition, your boss
appear and demands to have a meeting over lunch since he has to leave early.
You scratch your head hoping he gets what you’re your trying to communicate but
even before you can stammer anything he jolts away swiftly.
You follow reluctantly. You slum on a sit he
ushers you on….
So your dear self is receiving a lecture on the
fact that you haven’t finished analyzing some reports that were damped on your
desk earlier on. Fact is you don’t receive instructions from only one person
and trying to balance them all isn’t easy because one of either might feel like
you aren’t giving them the priority they deserve. One thing I’ve learnt over
time is not to retort to your superior. Just listen keenly and retain what you
need and discard what you don’t.
#chroniclesonecent: like here below.
It’s never that serious and while you are at
it, remember there’s someone out there having an even worse day. Dust yourself
and move on.
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