Perspective

Sometimes when you think you've stained your bedspread with the water from your pink birthday flowers...

you've really only made apparent the fact that your duvet is red...

Sometimes when you've tried several times to unlock your office at night without success...

you psyche yourself out and assume someone's lurking in there to lock you out...

but really you just stink at unlocking the door...

 

Sometimes when you think you just taught the worst lesson of your life...

you've really just learned how being a teacher works...

Sometimes when you are exceedingly intrigued about a building and want to find what's at the top...

it turns out to be seven flights of department stores...

with some excitingly sketchy staircases...

Sometimes when you feel like a failure who could never meet anyone's expectations...

you need to remember that you are capable of anything...even if it takes a lot of work...

Sometimes when you worry that your students won't like you...

you don't need to because they will love you before you say anything...

Sometimes when you think you've traveled across the world to a foreign land, culture, and language....

you have...

but there are still universalities, such as classic cafeteria mystery meat...

 

Sometimes when you're pushed out of your comfort zone...

you have to work hard to make a new comfort zone...

but, in so doing, you will find a happy place...

Things will always turn out alright in the end...

But remembering that they will is the tricky part.