Positively Punctual

I’m working on it, trying to be positive. I’m going to list all the nice things that have happened or gone well in the last week, just on a personal level because it’s not worth looking elsewhere at the moment.

I caught a train that I was completely going to miss. I didn’t realize that I was waiting on the wrong track, and the train I wanted to take pulled in as I was finding my way across. I didn’t even try to run, figuring that it was a lost cause. I walked quickly, but not too stressed. If (When) I missed this one, the next one was also going to be on that track so I needed to get there anyway. Didn’t even whine at the woman walking down the ramp with her head in her phone who couldn’t imagine that anyone might be trying to get on the train she’d just gotten off of. And I made it. So there.

I also made it on time to an appointment today completely by accident. I thought the appointment was taking place one town over from where it was, but realized I needed to get off the train earlier as I was confirming the address. So I got off the train in the right place. I also thought my appointment was right next to the train station. It wasn’t; it was a fifteen minute walk. I’d cushioned in enough time and got there with five minutes to spare, utterly without planning much of any of it.

I guess I’m just happy that I’m doing things, and that they’re working out, instead of those perfect storms that happen sometimes where everything is going wrong all the time. I appreciate things just going well, working, connecting, functioning.

I don’t have much else to write about that’s positive at the moment. I haven’t gone down any particular scary rabbit holes, just watched the news sometimes, but that can be enough these days. I’m just trying to appreciate the small things, the little things that work out when you don’t expect them to. Today I finished a book I was reading, and I jumped into a lake when it was too hot. I watched kids playing in the water and marveled at all the different sorts of young bodies squealing and laughing in the water. It was a nice day.

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.” –David Hume

I agree completely.