When Things Go Sideways, DON'T Go With It!

 

There's this funny one-liner:  WHEN THINGS GO SIDEWAYS, DON'T GO WITH IT!  Of course we CAN'T take this literally because sometimes, WHEN THINGS GO SIDEWAYS, we're IN IT, LIKE we're onboard that vehicle that goes SIDEWAYS.  BUT the catch here is that some of us get carried away by such [almost] tragic circumstances such that we would often end up stuck and immediately raising the WHITE FLAG because some of us would always end up with that 'GAME OVER' attitude.  WHAT many of us would get mixed up is that life is NOT akin to competitive sports.  Life is NOT an NBA game.  It's neither a soccer game wherein when the buzzer sounds, it's really GAME OVER😡😡😡

True, we're living our life intentionally.  We know WHERE we're headed and WHAT really matters to us.  And we're actively cultivating WHAT we're best at.  And often, we're developing that strong personal foundation to support our life, both at home, at work and even in our other endeavors.  And EVEN WHEN life seems to be 'rocking' along, that DOESN'T mean that we're immune to OR separate from the world around us.  Truth is, we are certainly NOT immune and we're reminded of that from time to time, especially when we stumble down💚💛💜

Sometimes, it can seem that every day is filled with uncertainties, right from the time you wake up and WHEN sometimes you find fault because you ended up on the wrong side of the bed?  It's during those times WHEN meaningful self-care feels important.  WHEN we need those inner foundations we've built to keep us strong.  WHEN we hug the people close to us and also virtually, the ones we have NEVER even met.  WHEN we need to see and be the good.  YES, I remember wanting to write about this more than once before [those times WHEN the breaking news included terrorist attacks. natural calamities and those kind of stuff that would test our mettle to the hilt💥💥💥

I had supposedly typical uneventful days UNTIL one day, my laptop's hard drive crashed then followed by some 'foul-up' in the Window's auto-updates.  WHICH meant NOT just losing stuff but the bigger realization I had during those seemingly uneventful days is that I lost that momentum [WHEN I thought I was already then going on full throttle].  That kind of snags we hit, those are very typical triggers to throw us SIDEWAYS, and worse, to throw off our schedules and priorities😖😖😖

Our takeaway:  Allow me to piggy-back to that catchy one-liner:  WHEN THINGS GO WRONG, DON'T GO WITH THEM.  Having a life and work you love, or work towards that, DOESN'T mean that bad things WON'T happen in your world. It DOESN'T mean you WON'T get disrupted.  It DOESN'T mean that you WON'T lose your loved one OR get injured via some freak accident.  It DOESN'T mean you're immune to the sudden disappearance of your job, your very lifeline.  WHEN THINGS GO SIDEWAYS, DON'T GO WITH IT dude😖😖😖