Bad days

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted” – Randy Paush

There are some very wonderful things about a bad day. They teach you about the value of true friendship, the importance of honesty, the humility in recognizing what you did wrong… But only if you take your stake in the bad day and claim what responsibilities you had in making it so.

It’s very rare when a bad day happens suddenly and with no build up, most of the time there is a “prequel” a story to tell regarding how things got to this point, and when you look, without justifications and excuses, at your role in this tale, there are always valuable lessons to be learned.

Things come to light and are revealed as they are, nasty situations become resolved (one way or the other) and the road is paved for a new solution.

Maybe bad days have gotten a this negative reputation because we need to avoid recognizing what we did wrong, or we want to prolong the situation as long as we can because we fear reprisals, but I think that if you start truly seeing what happened (and writing it down), you can get some valuable experience and, who knows, maybe even start looking forward to a few bad days.