Let It Go
Today I had a call from my local telephone company to give me what appeared to be a way to reduce the price of my international telephone calls and a free upgrade to my dsl, great right. However when this person started going through the details things were not adding up to top it off the person explaining it to me was from India and her English was not very good (don’t get me wrong I don’t expect everybody to speak perfect English I speak fluent Spanish myself so I know learning another language is hard) but you’d think they would use somebody with good English to explain complex options in a package.
After 15 minutes of it being obvious to me that she could not answer my questions she passed me to her supervisor and then I realized they were offering me a service I did not need and an upgrade I did not want for a few extra dollars a month. As soon as it was obvious that I was not interested they put the phone down quickly. I even got the impression that they were annoyed because they had wasted their time and I did not buy what they were trying to sell.
But what about the 45 minutes I the customer had wasted whilst they tried to sell me something that I was not interested in, I was really pissed off I was even more pissed off when I could not use my wireless handset to call my wife because the battery had run down.
It suddenly occurred to me that my treasured mental equilibrium was disrupted for the most stupid reason. I had allowed myself to get stressed and irritated over something which did not deserve even a minute of my time. I realized that the problem was not the time I had wasted so much as the negative state I had let it put me in. In this situation you just have to let it go I know it is easy to say but just let it go. It is not worth stressing or becoming irritated over it, it is simply not worth it.
Things like this happen to us every day again and again and we often respond by getting more and more stressed about things. That unexpected delay in traffic, standing in line for what seems like hours or having your flight canceled all can put stress on us which accumulates throughout the day. In the end however it is our decision to become stressed by these things, we let ourselves become stressed. So next time just take some deep breaths, relax and let it go.
I am a husband, and father of one son who works as an engineer. I became involved in writing articles about self improvement and positive attitude as part of a process of developing a more positive attitude to life myself.
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Tags: calmness, daily problems, irritations, Let it go, Stress
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