I have a decision to make.
I can be angry or grateful.
It’s up to me.
I’m currently sitting in the airport after a flight cancellation, delay, and re-routing. I will not be to my final destination for eight hours with a layover in between.
And I’m okay with that.
I am choosing to view this time as grateful time. Free time where I’m forced to sit and write or read or just think. I have to be still. That’s hard for me. I’ve already looped the terminal, bought a smoothie and eaten. There’s nothing else to see. I have another two hours before my flight and no tasks that need to be completed. I always laugh at myself when I pack four books and my computer for a short trip, but this is why. I want options and I want to be able to sit, relax. Who knows, maybe I’ll even pay for a chair massage while I wait! My vacation starts now, not when I arrive at my destination.
It starts now because I’m choosing to let it start.
I’m choosing to celebrate my free time instead of bemoan my delays.
It’s all about perspective.
Kelly
You’re awesome. As a former airline employee I didn’t run across many people who knew they could choose their reaction. 🙂 I read somewhere the the airport/delays don’t make people angry, it allows them the space to be exactly who they are and to practice other ways of handling anger/sadness. (I’m paraphrasing from memory the real quote was much better!) 🙂