Today is my Sunday, or for most people on my schedule, my first day off for the week. Because the Monday through Friday work week never materialized for me, changing my Sunday rest day in this way this has been a boon for me.
Having my first day off as a rest day, makes my ‘Sunday’ rest day special. I am tired from working through my week, so I relax and enjoy the day. I have time to reflect on my previous week, and remember the things that happened I am grateful for. I have the whole day to make the transition from working and business thinking into relaxed, easygoing thinking patterns. I have a whole day to think about what was important to me this week, and take of those elements of the previous days that need attending to and arrange them in order. I have a real break between working for someone else, and doing what is important to me. I can complete a chore I dislike without thinking this chore feels just like an extension of some unpleasant task my job requires of me.
One of things I am grateful this week is for the woman who cooks my breakfast. I start my day at 5:00 am, and my normal breakfast is about 9:00, so that is when I like to eat when I am at work. She is there at her grill almost every day. Most days she works very hard for her paycheck. Every day she makes sure my meal is prepared with care and attention. That makes my breakfast special to me, and it tastes better too, than some slapped together Borg food. This lady does not have to care about what she does, but she does care and that makes her cooking special. Her caring makes herself and the food she prepares for myself and my fellow employees first meal of the day taste better. Everything is better when the person doing it for you cares about what they are doing for you, meals, haircuts, or checking your purchase out at the local store is more enjoyable when people care about their work.
Stop lights all seemed to turn green just as I was driving up to them this week. Along with the lights, drivers around me were not as aggressive as I know they can be, so driving was more of a pleasure and less of a hassle. There also were no tail gating drivers three feet from my back bumper as I drove along near the speed limit in the far right lane.
I have lost three distant relatives who seem to be extraordinarily wealthy, whom I never got the chance to meet because they died before I was discovered. The representative acting in their behalf of liquidating their estate assures me that there is quite a fortune waiting for me. I am sure there is because it appears that my recently passed relative was rather thrifty, and having people around them who can read and write well was not up their on the priority list. I explained to the last one, that as soon as I receive my money from the first two I will be ready to claim my right to this most recent estate. It’s only been a few years now, so I am sure the check will be here any day.
Also I read in my email, that more personal areas of my life are not going that well either. Also my choice of materials to view is not all that it could be and these people are concerned about that. Finally there seems to be an unfounded rumor that I am wetting my pants because a few emails this week, are concerned about it. For a price the authors of the emails are willing to share with me the secrets for stretching various parts of my anatomy, of which they are sure would be a cure for my rumored condition. These are all a part of being grateful for what has happened in my last week, or at least the high points.
Life is better when you are grateful for the little things.
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