I woke up this morning, got my kids up and got them on the bus, just another day doing about the same things I do every day. After I get my youngest on the bus I like to come back home and either lay down or work on homework, just depends on how I’m feeling. I’m on a long second shift, 1pm – 1130pm, 4 days of the week, so the little naps before work help. Today was different though, I felt like I was missing something, or like there was something I needed to do. Well, there was..
Last week I set up a day to meet with the refugee family I’m volunteering to help out. We set it up for Wednesday, October 11th. For some reason though, for the past week I’ve been saying “I can’t wait till Thursday” to meet this family! I’m so excited! I even wrote a post about meeting them on the 5th, and said “a week from today”, which would have been the 12th! Of course I was upset, I think that’s a natural response to messing up and I did. Not only that but the person I was supposed to meet had called me and because I decided to take a nap today I missed the call. I called back as soon as I saw that I missed it and rescheduled, so I am still going to meet the family, but it’s just on Friday now.
In the time between realizing my mistake and trying to correct it, I could have really beaten myself down. But I didn’t. I do feel that in my younger days, I probably would have cussed myself out or called myself names and maybe even made myself feel bad. Worst of all, I may have given up and not even called back. Fortunately, throughout the years, I’ve learned that we all make mistakes, it’s ok to make mistakes and more often than not, people are understanding of this, especially if you’re sincere and honest. I made a mistake, I owned it. I can’t blame anyone for it and that is OK!
I hope whoever reads this can take my little experience and know that it’s ok to make a “boo boo”, as my mother used to say. Try not to fill your mind with negative thoughts about the situation, don’t beat yourself up, encourage yourself. Say “This is ok”, “I can take care of this”, because you can and it is.