By the time you get to work, you’re frustrated, you’re overwhelmed, you’re mad at the world, and you can’t even believe this has happened to you. When your supervisor sees you, she runs up to you and gives you the biggest hug you think she is capable of giving anyone.
She says to you, “We all thought you were in that accident!” Two tractor-trailers had collided on the freeway, and if you had been running on time, you would have been one of the 17 other cars involved in the pile-up, where nobody survived.
Suddenly, your perspective shifts, and you are having the best day of your life. You’re so thankful for your alarm not going off, for your daughter not putting on her shoes, for your caffeine addiction, that being late for work doesn’t even matter.
You were so frustrated because your alarm didn’t go off. You were so exasperated because your daughter didn’t put on her shoes. You were still even later for work because you needed your coffee. None of those feelings changed.