different hour, different mood
Jan. 6th, 2024 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeI just was enjoying a gift that someone gave me. It was wonderful, I was smiling; it brightened my morning.
But yesterday, when the gift was delivered, I had a totally different reaction, more along the lines of OMG, what?! Someone is giving me artisanal ice cream in a flavor I love, that they made themselves? Ahhhhhh, I don't have TIME for this! I can't eat ice cream now! I'm stressed out and not-hungry and anyway someone my age develops a heart condition or diabetes or at the very least puts on unwanted weight just by looking at ice cream, Aahhhhhhhhh!
--Not the way you should greet handmade ice cream in your favorite flavor. But yesterday, I was preparing to accompany Wakanomori to Logan Airport, a journey I profoundly hate (though I don't mind the actual airport part of it). The only thing worse than driving to Logan in January is driving to Logan in January in the snow--I was very grateful the trip was yesterday and not tomorrow, when snow is expected.
All this set-up is to make the breathtakingly obvious statement that your mood colors how you view things. This is more a note to self: hey Asakiyume! Your mood affects things! Yes, even you, you special snowflake! And if you find yourself stressed out by things that are actually perfectly delightful, maybe it doesn't mean suddenly you don't like ice cream anymore or are the world's most ungrateful friend. Maybe it just means that's a particularly bad moment, and you should WAIT before trying to have a reaction.
... Because I did wait (not graciously! More along the lines of I can't DEAL with this damn ice cream right now!!), and just now I really did enjoy it, completely happily, no friction.
Speaking of gifts, you know what gift some stressed-out parent would be very glad to receive right now? This tiny abandoned jacket.
But yesterday, when the gift was delivered, I had a totally different reaction, more along the lines of OMG, what?! Someone is giving me artisanal ice cream in a flavor I love, that they made themselves? Ahhhhhh, I don't have TIME for this! I can't eat ice cream now! I'm stressed out and not-hungry and anyway someone my age develops a heart condition or diabetes or at the very least puts on unwanted weight just by looking at ice cream, Aahhhhhhhhh!
--Not the way you should greet handmade ice cream in your favorite flavor. But yesterday, I was preparing to accompany Wakanomori to Logan Airport, a journey I profoundly hate (though I don't mind the actual airport part of it). The only thing worse than driving to Logan in January is driving to Logan in January in the snow--I was very grateful the trip was yesterday and not tomorrow, when snow is expected.
All this set-up is to make the breathtakingly obvious statement that your mood colors how you view things. This is more a note to self: hey Asakiyume! Your mood affects things! Yes, even you, you special snowflake! And if you find yourself stressed out by things that are actually perfectly delightful, maybe it doesn't mean suddenly you don't like ice cream anymore or are the world's most ungrateful friend. Maybe it just means that's a particularly bad moment, and you should WAIT before trying to have a reaction.
... Because I did wait (not graciously! More along the lines of I can't DEAL with this damn ice cream right now!!), and just now I really did enjoy it, completely happily, no friction.
Speaking of gifts, you know what gift some stressed-out parent would be very glad to receive right now? This tiny abandoned jacket.
