One Thing You Should Do Every Time Things Don’t Work

No, it isn’t smiling.

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You’ve had a tough day, things broke and didn’t work the way you wanted.

Maybe you were hoping that some event would turn out some way, and it turned out a different way.

What do you do on those days? How do you deal with it?

Are you smiling? They say smiling makes you feel a little better, but I don’t believe in temporary solutions.

You’ll feel better for a few moments, and then you’ll go on with your life.

What did you learn from this experience? Nothing.

Perhaps you choose to do something else instead of smiling?

Maybe you’re distracting yourself.

Will you be watching a movie? Eating? Crying in your bed?

All great solutions to make the pain go away, but perhaps the pain shouldn’t go away. Perhaps it’s there to teach you something new.

By distracting yourself, you’re running away.

That’s not a good solution, either.

There is one thing better to do in those kinds of times.

Write!

Yes, you read that correctly. Write whatever it is that you’re feeling. Write why…