I See a Theme

It must be a blah week because this is day two of my blahs. I've been waiting to write on here until I was inspired or suddenly found some motivation and I waited and I waited and it finally hit me maybe the best thing to blog about is the truth.

Some days stink. 

And sometimes those days turn into a week. Or two or even sometimes more. It's easy to feel like a failure on those stinky days. Trying to find a solution (because, really, who likes feeling blah-ish?), I wonder what makes them stinky in the first place? One thought is our expectations. Would it be a bad day if we didn't expect ourselves to be Mr. Wonderful and Mrs. Super? If we weren't expecting those things, we wouldn't feel bad when we didn't live up to our expectations. Why do we expect those things of ourselves? It's probably because we've observed someone else who was particularly Wonderful or Super one day in their role as parent, spouse, employee, individual, etc. etc. and we said to ourselves "I must be that way too or else I've failed in my role."

Here's a thought that I just had. Maybe that person that who was having a particularly Wonderful or Super day was just that - having a Wonderful or Super day. And maybe, just maybe that person who we always perceive to be Wonderful or Super has stinky, blah-filled days too. We just don't see them because everyone tends to hide out on their blah days. We in fact may be one of those people that do Wonderful or Super things in someone else's eyes. And when they don't see us, they figure we're off to Africa helping poor children or something instead of sulking around our home, eating ice cream until we go blind.

So here's a link in your emotional health suit of armor - expect bad days for yourself. Expect to have a blah day or week or two or whatever every once in a while. It's okay. Everybody is doing it.