Day #69: It's All in How You End the Day

I'm a big believer in good endings.

Most of the time, if the ending of something is good, you can forgive almost everything else.

This goes for movies, books, and most recently--days.

The past few days haven't exactly been banner ones. I've been feeling sluggish. I'm not writing as much as I normally do. This isn't really something that's tearing me up because I've been organizing a few different things that had to take priority over the writing.

Still, I can't but feel...out of shape.

And because my routine's been disrupted, I become disrupted. Meaning, I become cranky, irritable, and antagonistic.

It's resulted in more than a few days that have left me feeling like I should have stayed in bed.

Tonight I learned that there's a solution to that:

The ending.

A bad day is only bad in retrospect, so the solution is to turn the day around before you go to bed.

Sometimes it's difficult. Maybe something goes wrong right before bed.

If that's not the case, then I have to remember I have options.

I have time to change.

I can go to a movie, I can call up a friend, I can do something productive.

I can write.

In other words, I control the ending.

And if you end on a high note, the rest of the day doesn't seem so bad.