Live from Japan!

Sometimes I just get the feeling that I am meant to have a bad day. Despite the fact that I am trying my best to overcome, be optimistic and all that, the universe has decided that it won’t be a good day for me today and it is trying very hard to be sure that I agree.

Like today, for example.

My morning just wasn’t the best, I feel as though I am coming down with a bit of a cold, i have a HUGE zit, and I didn’t have a restful sleep, but I wasn’t trying to let it all bother me. Especially since I have FOUR classes today. I left the house and got on my bike.

Usually my bike ride is where I give myself a little pep-talk. I think through my day, breaking it down into smaller, more manageable pieces. That’s what I was doing today. I was lost in my own thoughts, thinking about how I could make this a good day. How I only had to make it until 4pm and then, if it still wasn’t a good day, I could come home, relax and watch a movie, if I want to.

That’s when the universe decided to have a good laugh.

A young man walked out of a small office building on the side of the road, and without even looking around he pitched his full bucket of mop water towards the gutter in the street. The dirty, scuzzy water left his bucket and made a graceful, sweeping arc upward. Instead of landing in the gutter, as the young man had intended, it drenched me. I was covered in dirty, slimy, soapy mop water and I had no towel and no time to stop (as I was running a bit late). So I had to, simply, carry on.

See what I am saying? Doesn’t that just seem like the universe is mocking me. I was trying to pep myself up, trying my hardest to believe that I could make a good day. Instead of letting me live in my little fantasy world, I got drenched in mop water.

So now I have a bit of a cold, the largest zit in the world, am a little bit sleepy AND, despite washing up a bit, I feel as though I was dipped in slimy mop water (oh wait! i was!). It’s going to be quite a day!