![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jul. 31st, 2004 10:50 pmEver have a day where it isn't a particularly bad or disastrous day, but enough happens to where you think the day could have gone a lot better?
I had one of those days. Today.
First up, I went outrigger canoe paddling this morning... we did a distance run to the mouth of Pearl Harbor and back, a distance of roughly 13 miles (6.5 miles each way). While the trips were uneventful, I remember tiring somewhat when we were about two-thirds of the way in. I also attempted to do a water change -- where you have two canoes next to each other and paddlers jump into the water and swim to different canoes -- and was unsuccessful, as I got a pretty bad leg cramp. I'd been drinking water, so I don't think that was the problem since I had no issues with the return trip (we did the water changes at the halfway point). Still, it was good exercise, but it was pretty frustrating not being able to do the water change.
Then was this evening... I helped out at the church I go to, which didn't have any issues for the most part. But the sound check had apparently gone disastrous earlier in the day, and I could tell the stress was taking its toll on those who were there for the sound check. I also had a couple of flubs myself, and while the service was relatively successful I know that I could have definitely done better.
Lessons learned are simply not to repeat the mistakes made earlier and to press on. One thing I will readily admit to is keeping past incidents, mistakes, transgressions -- whatever you want to call them -- stored in my memory for days and perhaps even weeks on end. It doesn't matter what the incident was -- if it was something bad, and I had any part in it, I will remember and chew over it. I don't like doing it myself, because it wears me down emotionally, but I also haven't been able to find any real way out of it. And that's the frustrating part.
In any case, I wanted to get something posted in here to hopefully at least get this off my mind... for now.
I had one of those days. Today.
First up, I went outrigger canoe paddling this morning... we did a distance run to the mouth of Pearl Harbor and back, a distance of roughly 13 miles (6.5 miles each way). While the trips were uneventful, I remember tiring somewhat when we were about two-thirds of the way in. I also attempted to do a water change -- where you have two canoes next to each other and paddlers jump into the water and swim to different canoes -- and was unsuccessful, as I got a pretty bad leg cramp. I'd been drinking water, so I don't think that was the problem since I had no issues with the return trip (we did the water changes at the halfway point). Still, it was good exercise, but it was pretty frustrating not being able to do the water change.
Then was this evening... I helped out at the church I go to, which didn't have any issues for the most part. But the sound check had apparently gone disastrous earlier in the day, and I could tell the stress was taking its toll on those who were there for the sound check. I also had a couple of flubs myself, and while the service was relatively successful I know that I could have definitely done better.
Lessons learned are simply not to repeat the mistakes made earlier and to press on. One thing I will readily admit to is keeping past incidents, mistakes, transgressions -- whatever you want to call them -- stored in my memory for days and perhaps even weeks on end. It doesn't matter what the incident was -- if it was something bad, and I had any part in it, I will remember and chew over it. I don't like doing it myself, because it wears me down emotionally, but I also haven't been able to find any real way out of it. And that's the frustrating part.
In any case, I wanted to get something posted in here to hopefully at least get this off my mind... for now.
