-Proverb
Fourth Lesson: Sooner or later, everything is minute.
The other side to lesson number four? DON'T WORRY!
So, this lesson is a good one. A really, really good one. In creating this title, I really enjoyed the word minute. The word meaning small, not the count of time. The spanish word it gave me is "mínima" which can also mean "minimal". Honestly? I couldn't have picked a better word.
This lesson is all about a specific time we have all faced. Think about the time you got into a disagreement with a friend about a boy in middle school, or the time in high school when you may have lied about leaving class early, or in college, when your roommate wanted the side of the room with the window when all of your stuff is all ready moved in. If you are anything like me, you freaked, right? These are all examples of things that are so minimal, or minute.
At the time of each of these situations like I said, I freaked. I thought, obviously, this is it. This is going to ruin my entire life. Granted, every next day after each of these events, I have gotten up the next day with only a lesson learned (and the need for an eggo waffle).
Don't get me wrong. There are big things in life that will have a huge impact on you and that will effect you. However, we cannot spend our time worrying about the things we have no hope in changing or the minute things and the minimal situations we find ourselves in. Lesson of the day? When the situation arises, be innovative. Lose the worry, create a happier attitude and make a solution that will blow everyone out of the water!
Story time of real life examples I feel are the BIGGEST necessity. Ya know, to keep it fresh?
My roommate, Hannah, and I barely knew each other when we came to college. When met through a mutual friend. I was excited though, to be sharing my college experience with someone I didn't know. I moved in a few days before Hannah because her family goes on yearly cruises when the move-in date is. When we moved in, I automatically put my things on the side with the window because I wanted it. Honestly, it didn't even cross my mind to ask until a girl from across the hall asked if we fought about the window side. I told her no, because I didn't ask and that, my friends, is when the panic struck. How could I have been so rude to not even ask if that was okay? Immediately, I text Hannah and asked if she wanted a window side. Well, if you know anything about ships and crusises, you know there is virtually no cell service. That being said, Hannah couldn't reply to my text for the next four days. I was literally in torture about this decision I had made without her until I got her text that said, "Oh, I don't care either way!" PHEW! Thank the Lord on that one. My panic and worry for four non-stop days did nothing for me besides make me weird and unsettled. Hannah and I are probably the best roommates you could ever choose to live in one tiny room, but I don't mind. I had the window last year, she has it this year and we are still the best roommates ever.
Hann and I at BINGO during a Snow Day in our dorm. LOVE LOVE LOVE my roomie.
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