I am a perfectionist and have always had an utter disdain for failure. This has kept me from trying a lot of things in my life. Having finally accepted that failure is a requirement for a fulfilling and diversified life experience, I have created this year long project in an attempt to become comfortable with the idea of failing. This blog chronicles my journey with failure.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Day 251: When No Plans Turn Into Good Plans
Saturdays. How often do I NOT make plans on a Saturday? Pretty much never. But today, I decided that I just wanted to hang out where I was housesitting for the night. I wanted to get some reading done and do whatever else I felt like doing. By myself.
Result: So I'm on facebook, and my friend Connie comments on a comment I had posted on one of her photos. She lives in Colorado, and she had come to Atlanta to come visit friends for her birthday. She had posted a picture she took at a national park near where I live. So I posted a comment saying that I live only 15 minutes from that park. Fast forward to 10pm--she comments on the photo and says that she and her friends were headed to a nearby diner if I wanted to join them.
Normally I'd be like, "No, they probably don't want me to go, I don't know her that well, what if we miss each other," etc etc etc. But you know what? I just shut those thoughts up as soon as they came up, and I went and drove to the diner. I ended up finding her and her friends, and I sat with them.
End result: It was a lot of fun! I'm really glad I went :-) I hadn't seen her in well over 5 years, so it was nice to hang out with a John Denver friend :-)
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