Pillowsophy No. 10 - Finger Your Day!

Pillowsophy - thoughts that run as I lay my head and stare at the darkness of the ceilings trying to fall asleep.

People make mistakes. And mistakes happen. Not by itself of course. I dunno about animals but people do makes mistakes. Why the hell am I repeating myself? (ah my mistake). Find me a person who never did a mistake in his/her whole life and I give you a million bucks (of course this might be hard and near impossible coz we have to observed he/she until they die coz the bet is subjected to his or her WHOLE life, but then again I might be dead by that time and of course the bet will be off) :p

But making mistake is not as bad as repeating the mistake. You know what they say, you’ll never learn if you never make a mistake. That is almost true. I kinda wanna rephrase that to, “you’ll learned more if you make mistake” coz sometimes we did it good the 1st time.

People makes mistake but more importantly most of the time MISTAKE MAKE PEOPLE. It could be for the better but it might also be for the worse. Throughout our life do we live on with our mistakes or do we learned and becoming better and evolved? (Oh yeah I purposely use the word evolved here)

I know some people who dwell on their past mistakes and their life is sadly based on past failures. Honestly I still have a hard time forgetting some mistakes that I did, I guessed there’s still little regrets in my life that stayed on. But they mostly appeared in my down times, it’s normal I think coz when we’re in a negative mode (or mood), negative thoughts reappear. When I’m down, the best way is to allocate the down time. I mean, ok I’m human and entitled (deserved?) my down time allocation :p . So it’s rather like time management. Organized your emotions. Like hey man, be sad until 6pm, after that keep your chin up, fxxk it!, you’re alive, you can do something about it, it’s not dat bad, you’ve been thru worse, come on world I’m coming to get ya! Sometimes in life you gotta go as a fighter coz life is war, but sometimes you gotta go as a lover coz life is beautiful.

I wished it easy, but it’s hard talking about organizing our emotions. Maybe it needs practice. Practice makes you better. Perfect? Never.

Our emotion can change in a snap of a finger. Just like dat! Imagined yourself, in your new clothes, it’s a beautiful morning, the air is fresh (or maybe it’s the glade air freshener in your car), it’s your favorite tune on the radio, you’re driving to work and you’re singing to the FM. But suddenly, a car just swerved inside your lane hastily and cuts queue at the traffic lights. Of course this is a WTF moment here. But there, in a snap of a finger, you’re emotion is in the other zone. And you drive on, cursing all way, driving recklessly  yourself trying to prove something, worse maybe chasing the car (only to see that it was driven by and old apek who looks (and thinks he is) innocent and looking at you and saying to himself, “kids these days, no respect for elders, cursing, bla bla bla)”, then you arrived at work feeling lousy (making mistakes in your work too), then telling your mates about the incident and the stories carries on till lunch or maybe to your wife/husband at home, “I have a bad day today!”. It’s all becoz just one uncontrolled emotion moment and that moment made your day (and some other people’s day too). You see they say opposite attracts, but here negative invites negatives, from the apek to you, back to the apek, back to you, then to your office mates, to your work and to your spouse. Just maybe to your health too (anger makes your blood pressure increase)

Let’s see how we can control the moment:

1)      As apek’s car suddenly swerved in, of course be shock.

2)      Keep in control of your car steering or maneuvering.

3)      Ok you can curse a little “mangkuk pijar!” :p

4)      If everything is ok, just say to yourself “Alhamdullilah, I’m lucky I’m still alive”

5)      Drive on forget about it, keep in control, ok maybe one last cursing “stupid driver, you drive like hell and one day you be in hell!” :p

6)      Mengucap, Put on smile, continue singing, drive safely and if you can managed your mouth don’t talk about it to your office mate or your spouse or anybody. Coz nobody knows that apek (even you, who cares anyway?) and there are better things to do or talk about like your new clothes maybe. :p

There you go, in a snap of a finger, you control you and your environment. Other people’s mistake doesn’t make you makes a mistake. And other people’s mistake doesn’t make or MADE your day.

Come to think about it, how bout this? When something like this situation happen, snap your finger (if you’re driving just imagine your snapping your finger if  you can’t manage snapping your finger and handling the steering) and say “I’m better than this, forget about it!”

Ok here's a tune to compliment this post, remember folks you got the POWER, just SNAP!

 oh, play it loud, enjoi! ;)