You Never Know How the Day Will Go

You choose if that’s a source of comfort, joy, fear, or trepidation.

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Everybody has bad days.

That’s how the world works. Shit happens. Random happenstance comes to pass. The best-laid plans might go brilliantly or horrifically. And there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it.

There are so many factors that can and will impact you every day. Weather, traffic, the whims of other people, the passage of time, and way more things than I care to list here. Yet all these things, and more, can, will, and do impact your life every single day.

Here’s the largest issue with this: there is nothing you can do about it.

You cannot control other people, traffic, weather, time, and on and on. They exist beyond you and your ability to control them. Thus, to all intents and purposes, you roll the dice every day. Will you roll a natural 20 and have an amazing day where it all goes right? Or will you roll a 1, and have a terrible, horrid, no-good day? Most likely you’ll roll a number between these extremes.

Let’s make this more complicated. If the day is divided into morning, afternoon, and evening, does that mean you re-roll for each? Could be. Given 24 hours in a day, and being awake for 12–20 of them, could you be rolling the…