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Veteran's Day and an Etiquette Question
2002-10-08 - 11:21 a.m.
Expectations
This is a random stream of consciousness ramble, so if those sorts of things bug you, skip me today :)
I spent about 11 hours sleeping last night, making up for the 3 nights that I didn't get much sleep at all. It was nice to come home to a reasonably clean house yesterday.
We've got fighter practice tonight, and as far as I know, we'll be there. I have to work til 6:30 tonight to make up for leaving early for Crusades this coming Friday.
Today's ramble is on expectations. Why is it that your mind can work up these wonderful expectations, and just aren't possible, but they get built anyway and when something happens (or threatens to happen) it all sort of crumbles like a house of cards, leaving me feeling not so good.
How do you rein in your thoughts imagination so things aren't "larger than life" and then it's not such a huge disappoinment if it doesn't go according to plan.
There's nothing going on to precipitate this train of thought, so don't worry, I'm just sort of "thinking out loud."
I've been working on making my thoughts more positive, even when things aren't always the most positive they can be. That's really difficult when faced with disappointment.
I feel like this Pennsic should have been a wonderful training ground for learning to live with disappointment. In a way it was, in a way it just made it harder to deal with.
I'm not done learning the first things I've been talking about, but I think the next thing I need to add to my list of "things I need to Learn" is how to set realistic expectations. That's all part of the "I can't control what other people do/say" collection of artifacts I'm learning to catalog also; but how do you continuously let it just roll off like it doesn't matter?
*shrug* something else I need to work on, I guess.
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