balance the bad with the good

Ever had one of those days?

One of those days when you figure out that you'll miss your in-class essay due to an XC meet, you fail your driver's test and miss XC due to aforesaid driver's test, which you failed?  Oh, and your facebook account won't open. 

Yup.  And if you can guess who that day belonged to, smart you. 

HOWEVER.

I've learned something before, and all through life it'd do me good to remember it.

There's good in everything, or at least there's just as much good as bad, or even more good. 

For example:

Ever had one of those days?

One of those days when it's Hug-a-Cross-Country-Runner Day and your whole team goes crazy hugging eachother in the halls and even in Algebra 2?  Or one of those days when you get free dress instead of uniforms?  Or one of those days when you're allowed to yell "IT'S HUG A CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER DAY?"

Okay, we weren't strictly allowed to yell that, but whatever. 

The important thing is always, always to remember that there's always as much good as bad.  And often enough, if you just look, the good is blooming around the corners of the bad stuff, shy and sweet and wistfully hoping that you'll tear your eyes from the thick, dark cloud of the bad things and just sweep in the good and smile. 

And you know what?  If you just look at those delicate pink petals of good, they'll gain courage and start seriously gwamping the bad stuff and mashing it into the ground.  It'll still be there, of course, but it'll be mashed into the ground.  I mean, if you've ever had a panic attack around an errant earwig, you'll know what I mean. 

And besides, I can take over the driver's test, there'll be more XC practices, I can write my in-class essay over lunch tomorrow, and facebook isn't that important anyway and probably is back up as I write this. 

And Hug-A-Cross-Country-Runner Day?  Priceless.

And there's another one of those on November 20.  Mark your calendars, people.