Blog #706: Little Bug Big Crash

Despite no bicycles being near her…

Her bike swerved dramatically.
She crashed more dramatically.

I ran over to help.

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She was now sitting up on the bike path.

Her knee and hand were bleeding. She had crashed hard, and now she was starting to cry from the bad sting.

She told me there was a washcloth in the small pack she had been wearing. I set it in front of us and took it out. I poured the water I had in my bottle on it and helped her clean the bloody wounds.

Once we were certain she could stand and nothing was broken, I said, “What in the world happened? I saw you swerve sharply…and then your nasty crash!”

With wet eyes she responded, “A bug flew in my face! And everybody knows I hate bugs!”

Ahhh…

The extra little had caused the extra big.

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Doing what I do…

My brain always sees life lessons.
Of course, this is one…too.

The little things.
The littler things.
The littlest things.

They have sometimes crashed my day…too.

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MOST recently…

I made an online purchase where I purposefully raised my order amount to a certain high dollar mark so that I could also get the FULL-size bonus freebie.

But when my package came…

The FULL-size freebie had shrunk into an ultra-small sample pack.

I ran with my irritation and called the company. The little thing had transformed into a BIG irritating thing in my head.

Ever been there?

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Life has taught me…

MANY of us are extra great at doing it.

We dwell on the little crap.
We water it and water it…mentally.
Of course, the little grows in size.

BIG.
BIGGER.
BIGGEST.

The little gets blown out of proportion.
It gets supersized.

Occasionally…

We blow a fuse.

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It’s a lesson that hasn’t melted into me…yet.

So I live it again and again and again. Maybe NOW, I’ll pay extra attention because I am writing about it.

Don’t grow the little.
The anguish isn’t worth it.

The deep-down real truth is…

Life offers way TOO many actual BIG dramatic stresses, challenges, and worries…is it really necessary to get so bugged out by the little things that we transform them into GIANT nasty things?

Rhetorical question.

I know the answer.

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So this week, a “Lesson to Self.”

“Keep the little…little.”

No need to dwell on it.
No need to stress about it.
No need to grow it.

Instead…

Get your brain together.

Breathe.
Flow.
Get over it.

Or…

Choose to crash.

S.

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