catharsis

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I just came from the post office this morning pissed off. Why do you say? Well, let's see, I tried to mail very important documents and realized I made a mistake making it an express mail delivery. The personnel charged me more than my budget. So I had to mail the first documents first and withdrew some money for my second document. The interval of me mailing that second document was no less than 5 minutes but when I was about to mail it, the man on the window just told me to come back after lunch. I was looking at the office clock and it was like a minute before 12:00 noon. I started heating up and tried to talk the personnel to taking my mail, rather than me coming back to the post office when he could just have taken it a minute before the scheduled lunch beak. Damn it! He just wouldn't reconsider. Thus, I drove home and that got me pondering what went wrong, why I was so pissed by the situation. First, these documents took me months to prepare and being at the post office I want it to be mailed fast and safely so I chose to mail it express, however, I wasn't able to prepare that much money because when I asked a friend how much mailing them would cost, it was cheaper...probably I could have mailed it on a non-express delivery to have it cost less. Oh well, that's over. Secondly, I can't believe how unaccommodating people can be. Well, I guess that's just how things work in that office or maybe that just depends on the person. Thus, I just have to reconcile myself to the idea of the hassle of going back there to mail after lunch hours just for that inconsiderate person. What did I learn from the experience? I could have been there at that office earlier to prevent hassles such as this from happening. Moreover, I also learned to let things be. There can really be moments in life when things don't go smoothly or the way we expect them to be. When that happens, --it happens. We just have to take them as they come and move forward.