My shift ends at 4:00 in the morning. On my way home, seems like my pillow, blanket and bed are pulling me already. Gravity is pulling my eye lids to close my eyes. I keep on battling with my self to keep from sleeping since I’m afraid of reaching somewhere (as I always did) due to sleeping on my way home.
While waiting for a tricycle going to our village, all of the “manongs” are so choosy. They tend to avoid me of being their passenger since our place is on the last block of the village, and that pisses me off. When finally I’m in front of our house, our dog “Lutos” keep on barking that I’d kick our gate which results to hurting my big toe real hard (“ahhh… P**a!”). I then call out to my sister who still asleep during that time “dugaya mangabri oi!” My sister then gets mad at me too, and seems that all bad things are contiguous… I accidentally drop my phone (again)… during shower I hit my own eye… and so on.
I then realize that if only I’ve reacted the other way around everything would be fine. No swollen big toe, nice morning with my sister, and no another crack on my Nokia 5000.
I remember the 80-20 principle that a friend shared to me. With all the things that are happening to your life, 20% is what the world offers you and 80% is from the way you react to things. So keep the optimism in you.
Just be POSITIVE!
