Day 6

Today, I am grateful for patience…the patience of myself and the patience of others.  There have been times when I’m running late to pick up the kids, get to an appointment, or I am in a rush to get from point A to point B and gotta tell myself to calm down and don’t freak out.  I started the morning rushing.  I rushed to get showered and out the door because I laid around in the bed way too long.  I rushed to get dressed and make sure I had everything I needed before I left the house.  I rushed to make my train by 9:55am which is the only train going that way for the entire day.  I visually flipped old slow senior citizen drivers out of my way and cursed the little towns which had 35 MPH speeding limits.  35 MPH?!  That’s parking lot speed!!  I rushed to get on the train when I did make it about 10 mins before it arrived.  I didn’t know I was rushing to board until an older man laughed and said, “you’re in a rush to get on this train, huh?”  Um, I guess so.  Calm down, girl.  Then I sat down and enjoyed the ride to my destination.  Once I made it home, I took a leisure stroll downtown to my next train which will take me to my apartment.  The weather was crisp and lovely so I was in no hurry….until the guy called saying he was outside my house to drop off my kids almost 1.5 hours earlier than they told me to expect them.  Ugh! Back to rushing….

I told him I was just getting on the Brown Line and I’d be home in about 30 mins.  He said “no problem” and just give him a call when I’m home.  Oh, thank you Mr. Patient Man you.  I made it home almost 50 mins after I hung up the phone and the kids walked in the door not even 10 mins later.  *Sigh* I spend a lot of time rushing to and from that when I get the chance to take a senior citizen pace in life I enjoy it too much and then gotta switch back to Psycho Crazed pace.  But, every thing worked out great.  No one was upset, frustrated, and I just calmed down and talked myself into a less anxious state of mind.  Patience doesn’t usually surface in me but I really appreciate it when others are patient with me because I know me – I can be a hand full.