The Power of One

The Power of One
Party of one ...

It is a fact that one person can ruin your day. It does not matter if you finally made the basketball team or you found the perfect pair of shoes at the mall. It does not matter you got a B in that really hard class or you made a great decision at work. One person can ruin your day. To further the fact, you don't even need to know the person. It can be a stranger. Think about that. Some guy off the street can ruin your day.

Why? Why is it that no matter how good you think you look or how good you feel about yourself some stranger can ruin that? And this stranger is lurking everywhere. This stranger is out there everyday, in every place, just waiting ... waiting for you to cross their path so they can put a rain cloud over you for the rest of the day. This stranger can be anyone.

For example, what is a job interview for but to ruin your day? You put together you resume and feel good about it. You put every place you have worked and the experiences you garnered there. You put all the civic organizations you've participated in and feel good about the work you've done with them. You put all the schools you've attended, the degrees and diplomas you've recieved, and training you've been through and you feel successful. You dress to impress and feel good about yourself. You are prepared for this interview. And the interviewer (read: stranger) can spoil that great feeling. With one sentence or one glance of the eye or one bored expression. One thing from one person can ruin everything.

Or you work at your job for a long time. You feel good about the work that you do. You enjoy the job. You do it to the best of your ability. One person on one day can ruin that. It could be a co-worker. Someone that treats you like crap from the moment they start to work there or the moment they walk in the door everyday. They are just there to bug the crap out of you. Or a customer. A customer comes in and steals something. The manager can't prove it wasn't an employee or a customer. Then can't prove which employee it was. Fires everyone on that shift. Or a client neglects to fill out the proper forms and you legally can't do anything. The client throws a fit, lies about your attitude, makes themselves look like the wounded party. Next thing you know, you are fired. A stranger has ruined your day. A stranger has come in to your life for a short period of time and wrecked what you had worked hard for. Or you like someone. You decide that you like this person or you are interested in this person. You think about asking them out or just trying to get to know them. Why is it that if they are not single or really busy or just not interested, it ruins everything?

Why do we let strangers ruin our day? They don't know anything about us, yet one thing they do or say make our day suck so much we just want to go home and give it up. Out there somewhere is going to be someone waiting to do something that will destroy your good day.

How will you react?

But if one person can ruin everything, one person should be able to fix it all. Your friends are there for you. Let them pick you up when you are down. It is not the opinion of a stranger that matters, is the opinion of those that know you and still care.

And so goes the life ...