You know it's going to be a bad day when . . .

When you wake up to your alarm and realize you were supposed to be at work an hour ago.
 
Challenger78 said:
When you wake up and you think it's a bad day.
It's that simple, sometimes a positive outlook can change everything.
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That's not true. The Pollyanna method doesn't work for everything. You can tell yourself "it could be worse" all you want, but that doesn't make it a great day. Your outlook can change perhaps, what you do personally, like not trip and fall down the stairs, but your outlook won't make your car that got stolen the previous night "un-stolen".

You know it's going to be a bad day... when you wake up late, your car is missing and no one can take you to school, you don't have enough money for the bus, so you walk and then it starts to rain, and you're tired and miserable and when you get to class your teacher isn't there because you just realized you don't have that class on Tuesdays, which means you thought it was another day and already missed your midterm, which was earlier. That was a pretty bad morning for me.
 
CutsieMarie89 said:
That's not true. The Pollyanna method doesn't work for everything. You can tell yourself "it could be worse" all you want, but that doesn't make it a great day. Your outlook can change perhaps, what you do personally, like not trip and fall down the stairs, but your outlook won't make your car that got stolen the previous night "un-stolen".

You know it's going to be a bad day... when you wake up late, your car is missing and no one can take you to school, you don't have enough money for the bus, so you walk and then it starts to rain, and you're tired and miserable and when you get to class your teacher isn't there because you just realized you don't have that class on Tuesdays, which means you thought it was another day and already missed your midterm, which was earlier. That was a pretty bad morning for me.
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One thing I've learnt is that realism need not be pessimism and optimism need not be illusion.
I'm not overtly optimistic, but moaning about it doesn't do much. Take it and roll with it.
 
Challenger78 said:
One thing I've learnt is that realism need not be pessimism and optimism need not be illusion.
I'm not overtly optimistic, but moaning about it doesn't do much. Take it and roll with it.
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I didn't moan for longer than a minute or so and then tried not to think about it for the rest of the day, which turned out just fine. But that didn't turn my morning into a good morning. I still got a zero on my test. I don't see how I was being pessimistic, that was just how that morning went. It was what it was, which was an unfortunate morning. I am however a believer in bad luck.
 
Anyone who says they've never had a bad day is lying. Sheesh, sometimes it's just fun to moan about it. It doesn't mean that you are eternally pessimistic.
 
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