One of Those Days!

Have you ever had one of those days where everything is wrong?

Oh, I don’t mean that anything is going wrong; absolutely nothing of consequence needs to happen, yet everything just feels wrong. You feel off…

Do you know what I mean?

I’m having one of those days. I want to be relaxed and happy, but I just keep being washed over with worry, or anxiety; about nothing in particular – there’s certainly nothing going wrong. It’s just one of those days. What do you do on those days?

In the past this would always be my permission to take a day off; I’d watch movies and read useless books. I’d be distracted, which is enough to get me through the day so I can start over again the next day. But I don’t have time for that today (and I suspect it would just make me feel worse).

I promised myself that this week I would work every day; I have Pre-Writing to do, survey results to review, and another project that is anxiously awaiting my attention. There are days (and situations) where distraction is a perfectly acceptable cure for a bad day, but this just isn’t one of those days.

Instead, I found myself composing this post in my head while driving from point A to point B. “Have you ever had one of those days where everything is wrong?” So here I am, talking to you about it, writing, working… Oddly, I’m feeling a little better already. (Not to mention I’ve just about finished one more of my 18 posts!)

Which means that it turns out that both doing nothing to the point of distraction and doing something of substance are cures for just one of those days… Personally, I think this one might be better as I always feel a little guilty after my nothing days (although, maybe having a bad day will be a good way to get Wakizashi to make me dinner tonight).

What do you do when you have one of those days? Do you let them rule you or do you have a trick for overcoming them? Do tell, we are all dying to know.