No worries...

Life is stressful, there's never enough time in the day to get everything done that needs to be taken care of. On top of all that, there are those moments that happened earlier in the day that you have to deal with.

You know the ones,  that report that the boss wants at 8am tomorrow,  the revised carpool schedule(from a text message) which means you should have been at the school 7 minutes ago(oops),  or that delivery package you promised to drop off by 5 and it's 4:57 and you are still 14 minutes away.

Some things we have control over, "yea, I could have stayed and finished the report, I could have taken state street and been there on time, or found another drop box for the package. That would have resolved a lot of stress. "

Stress happens every day, it may not be from the boss or a text,  it may come from an off the cuff comment, or from another authoritative figure that you must comply with. Stress is bad, it causes worry, and these issues must be resolved.

But there are some situations that we incur, and, no matter what we try, we can not change the outcome. My fault, your fault, his fault. it is. what it is! We can do nothing about it.

Things like the landlord leaving a note that says "I need to see you:" or your significant other saying "we need to talk" Granted the prior may be  minor compared to the post, but woe some none the less.

Throughout the day, we dwell on these prior moments. The bottom line is, no matter how much we worry, the outcome will happen. We cannot control that. We stress out, sweat, fret and curse at the parking attendant because we are impending doom.

These things cannot be amended, or avoided. Yet they consume our day and distract us from our everyday activities! Things like reports, carpools or deliveries.

You can not change these events, no matter how you try, yet you worry and let yourself become distracted for whats' going to happen in your mind. Not really knowing for sure what is going to take place.

When all is said and done, and your landlord tells you trash day is now Thursday, not Wednesday, and your girlfriend tells you her college roommate is coming to town and she will be staying in the spare bedroom for 2 days, you realize you worried for nothing.

There are some things we know about and can change, and others we don't know about and can't.  There is no reason to stress about whatever we can't change, whatever happens, happens.

Call it fate, karma, or kismet. It is, what it is.  No need to worry about it, if you can't change it, there is no need to let it stress you out!

Until next time...