I yelled “put it down right now” for the n-th time to my toddler running around with my backup charger and instantly regretted it. Although it made no difference to my blissful baby who continued to smash the life out of it.
The problem with headaches is, until you rest, anything that happens slightly out of routine further aggravates it, each time you unlock a new level of vertigo.
A while later when I recomposed myself and realized that I would’ve responded so much better to his epic tantrums on any regular day.
He consistently manages to get his hands on something important each day but I don’t throw a fit about it each time, I just coolly distract him and carefully hide whatever was the new danger item he found, then why did I react this way?
because of what I was enduring
which led to an epiphany,
“The response to a situation says more about the person than the situation itself
some people endure with grace
some people endure with rage
on most days, you do both
just whatever sails your boat
and when people suddenly throw a fit, one can conclude,
Maybe they have a headache I know nothing about!”
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This post was previously published on medium.com.
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