Dear Reader,

I’ve noticed a pattern when I experience what is commonly called “a bad day”. When it happens, I feel justified to gratify myself in the evening and to indulge in bad habits (e.g. eating trash food, staying up too late drying my eyes in front of stupid videos and the likes). This behaviours, although very human, are undesirable, as they can add up and lead to long-term consequences and missed opportunities.

However, if a series of unpleasant days happen within a short amount of time, my sense of self-preservation intuitively understands that I cannot go on and on wasting my time and energies that way, and stops me from behaving like that for too long.

So, paradoxically, if something goes wrong with sufficient frequency I can have the opportunity to develop resilience, patience, find a way to prevent future troubles and to analyse the ultimate causes of what I called “a bad day” (that could, in the end, not be so bad after all if what happened taught me a lesson)… all without the adverse effect of protracted harmful habits.

Believe me: if I could, I would sometimes like to increase the recurrence of unpleasant days!

Until next time, remember that something is “bad” only if you call it so. There is always something to learn, even from stress, pain or sense of failure.