Lil' Short Stories

It's Not Such a Hard Knock Life

Everyday is something special.

You wake up. You take a deep breath. You have an extent of content health. You have another day.

Sure, you have the hardships of having to get out of the warm comfort of your bed; or having to walk up to an empty refrigerator because you haven't gone grocery shopping in a couple weeks; or having to starve yourself out because you haven't bought anything with sustenance; or having to jingle your car keys in the ignition repeatedly because you didn't use it the day before; or having to sit through morning traffic; or having to go to a job of what you thought was going to fulfill your dreams, but isn't what you signed yourself up for, and spent countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears; or having to sit in your bare-walled cubicle and eat the sad sandwich you bought from the rundown sub shop across the street of your offices; or having to be yelled at by your boss because your work is turning to slack; or having to sit in a sleep provoking office meeting; or having to leave your tired cubicle and punching in your card without talking to your office crush after numerous encounters throughout the long eight hours of sitting and pushing keyboard keys; or having to sit through the afternoon traffic; or having to get home to the heaping pile of bills and unopened mail; or having to turn to an—almost—empty bank account to pay the monthly rent; or having to take a short, but freezing shower to save money; or having to go to bed without supper; or having to listen to the lullaby of the nearby car horns before you settle in a somewhat comfortable slumber; or having to repeat the process all over again.

Yeah, the day is rough, but look at it from another point of view. You have the comfort of a bed with sheets and a comforter. You have the pleasure of a refrigerator because at some point you have food that was—and will be—scattered on the shelves. You have a car to take you to your needed places. You have all your morning-shifters alongside with you in that morning traffic. You have the persistence to keep working to a cause—that is your future. You have a job that gives you something to pass the long hours of the day and in return you get a paycheck. You have the huge opportunity to jazz up your bare walls with posters, D.I.Y. projects, or doodles from your scratch pad. You have the money to buy a sandwich from across the street, and even paid that patient lady's paycheck just with turkey, lettuce, and tomato on Italian. You have a boss who cares for your work ethic, they're pushing you to reach or pass the abilities that you have the capability to have. You have the opportunity to talk to your coworkers with side commentary for the way your boss is flailing their arms around. You have a chance to walk up to your office crush and ask them to drinks after work; who knows, they might just be as timid as you have been because they like you, too. You have the morning-shifts beside you trying to get home, while the afternoon-shifts are pushing through to get to a long night ahead of them. You have mail, most don't hear from others and getting mail is a treasure. You have bills of rent, just another reminder of a lucky person who has the consistency of a daily job to pay for those bills. You have a shower to bathe yourself, keeping your hygiene higher than most and making you approachable. You have a bed, to sleep through the cold nights. You have the sounds of an alive city just at the bottom of your apartment building. You have the joy of repeating your day all over again, but what if you made something of it?

Eleanor Roosevelt said, "Do one thing every day that scares you."

Exchange those last few minutes of fixing your desk for a few enchanting minutes of inviting your office crush to a local bar to talk. Add an extra tip to the kind lady at the sub shop. Make someone's morning in that morning traffic by singing to them—windows opened or closed. Approach the I.T. person, who seems to have a crush on you and become friends with them.

Break your routine of a day and make it so you have something to look forward to. Don't make your days a miserable chain of events on repeat. Don't take each special day for granted. Tomorrow you might not have all that you have now.

Do the unique, unusual, and different.

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hey hey it's jules!! i'm testing out the whole "let's start writing" thing. that i'd hope i'll be able to pursue as a successful hobby :) but i wrote this for some inspiration for when i was tired of the same old school schedule. so i wrote this as a reminder of having control of my own decisions.
let's see how the guy i've seen around the halls will react when i bluntly tell him i like him ;) take that spontaneity!! (wish me luck!!)