Being Thankful

Sometimes you have those days were everything is put into perspective. 

I was mildly grumpy about being called into a 9.5 hour shift at work on the self serves. I was bracing myself for a long day of voiding transactions, relentless smiling and the countdown of hours until home time.

Throughout my entire day at work, there were about 3 things that happened which made me re-evaluate my bad attitude. But I will just briefly touch on one.

I asked one of the customers who was waiting on a price check how his weekend was going. He replied it was going alright but that he was just super busy at the moment, with heaps to organise. After asking him about his weekend some more, he told me that his house burned down about 3 weeks ago and that he lost everything. He wasn’t insured and had just bought $7000 worth of tools for his business which was all lost.

It was a reminder that you never know what is going on in the lives of strangers around you. It is so important to be positive and nice to people because you just don’t know what is going on in their lives.

There were other customers that day (and on other days) with predicaments that make me grateful to be in the position I am.

I really need to start treating work as an opportunity and a luxury rather than a chore.