What's important in life

Since my divorce last year I have learned the hard way not to let most things bother me, and most days I just forge ahead, head bent into the wind metaphorically speaking, and take whatever the day throws at me. I am still sad about the divorce and doubt I will ever stop loving/missing my x-wife, but, life must go on!

Yesterday however the wind won.......I had one of the most stress filled days in a long, long time at work. Take a huge workload, trying to juggle many tasks, and technology that could be pictured as a living, breathing evil entity that would not cooperate, and in fact was fighting against me will a vengeance! I felt like hurling hardware across the room and stomping it into bits after it landed!

It took a day like this to remind me what's import; family, friends, kindness, and love for my fellow man. On my friend David's blog there was a post (you can read it by clicking here) that described a troubled woman that he was kind to. This storey heartened me and helped get me through the day making my problems less important.

Stress though did continue to mount as more problems were encountered with the technological nightmare from a vendor whose name I dare not speak! Near the end of the day I called the X's house to see if any of the kids wanted to come home with me. My daughter answered and she said hello and that she loved me, and all the cares and stress of the day melted away. It was as if I had swallowed a restorative elixir.

So, after I got off the phone with her, I paused, wrote some trouble tickets with the vendor whose malevolent hardware I was battling, and departed work, with a song in my heart knowing I was going to see my daughter Danielle. AND I was doubly surprised and pleased when I went to pick her up because my son Scott came too. We stopped at the store for a few items and I got them each a treat, and we had fun watching some TV together before their mom picked them up.

So....remember what's important....a lesson I should have learned many years ago and I vow to never forget as I go forward. I am off to work, where the hardware awaits, yet I know whatever the outcome I will not succumb to stress and react as I did yesterday.