"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any rewards. Your life will never be the same again."
Og Mondino.
Ah. This one was a bit of a worry as if I thought the people I was meeting today were going to be dead by midnight, I would burst into tears and hug them. This would have probably had me put on indefinate sick leave, until I had sorted out whatever was wrong with me.
So I just conducted my day in a freindly and supportive manner. It hasn't changed my life, but generally being positive, is becoming a habit, and helps with things I have encountered so far, that might have caused me a little stress normally. I have definately enjoyed each day a lot more.
I had an unusually standard 9 to 5pm day and came home to dinner cooked for me. Which was good as I spent the rest of the evening baking a cake with my daughter. It was not a 'chuck it all in together' cake, so took a while, and then we made merangues with the egg whites. The first tray turned out like giant, blackened dog turds, but the 2nd tray were rescued in time.
Mum is staying for a few days and spent the day alone, and much of th evening, due to the baking fest. But she has been reading and writing and very self-contained.
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