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A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: Minor mishaps Which kinds of minor mishaps annoy you the most, minor mishaps such as getting drenched in the rain, dropping something, annoying phone calls, etc. Then, when such a thing happens, how do you handle it at the moment that it happens? ---------- I could start by saying , "Imagine this," but you don't need to imagine because this has really happened and recently, too. So try to see this in your mind's eye: I am deeply engrossed in an intriguing book, and suddenly the alarm in the kitchen goes off since the stew on the stove has spilled over to cause some smoke and mess. I drop my book and go turn off the stove and start to clean the stove top. While I'm in the middle of that, the phone and the doorbell ring, both at the same time. I stop the cleaning, pick up the phone, and yell toward the door, "coming!" In a rush, I answer the phone on the way to the front door. It is that scam-caller, again, who says, "Hi Grandma, I'm in jail!" I utter a small curse as I open the door. It is my next-door neighbor who has heard me curse. She looks at me questioningly. I point to the phone and say, "Scam caller!" while I roll my eyes. She says, "Oh, that!" Hopefully, she has caught on. I ask her in but she refuses, saying she has to go back to pack their bags and also has something on the stove. Well, tell me about it! She is asking me to pick up her mail from her mailbox while they'll be away on a short vacation. This is because we have stopped to ask the post office to hold the mail, since several break-ins have happened in our neighborhood after the "hold mail" request. After she leaves, I go back to the task at hand. Luckily, the stew is AOK, except for the small spoonful that somehow boiled over and caused the mayhem, even though I had set the dial to slow-simmer. This brings to mind my slow evolution in dealing with mishaps. When I was a kid, my mother always told me, "Don't make a mountain out of a mole hill." To which, my grandmother always added, "Everything is a mole hill." Later on, my late husband was wonderful in handling all the steep mountains but not molehills or mishaps. So, that was where I had to come in, and we had a wonderful 54 years together. In hindsight, it was a good thing that I was thought early enough about handling mishaps. All mishaps are annoying, but over the years, I came to accept that mishaps are mostly small-sized. They, however, should be handled right at the time and place that they occur. In my case, if a mishap happens outside of me, I'm better at handling it than, say, when my concentration wears thin and my mind wanders. So I guess, my mind's wandering is the one mishap that annoys me the most. The remedy? I get right back at the task at hand or get up and walk around and drink something cool. Taking a short break usually helps, if getting back to the task right away doesn't. Then, multi-tasking doesn't help either, but I can't help that since some things need to be done all at the same time. Also, I have come to accept mishaps as small interruptions and keeping my cool and my memory processes in an orderly shape have helped me to bounce back from such mishaps and interruptions. |
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