I’ve been experiencing some hair-pulling email issues over the past few days.
Things that were supposed to happen when somebody opts in to get my daily or weekly emails, wasn’t. The plugins and forms that were supposed to fix the problems, weren’t. And when I invested $800+ for a Cyber Monday deal to switch to a new email service provider… I quickly realized that they came with their own set of new, hair-pulling issues that I’d have to resolve. And so it has gone so far this week…
But then…
I heard that one of my students’ mom got her finger broken by her autistic daughter…
And that one of my coworker’s sisters was in the hospital…
And that one of my students’ dad passed away…
And that another one of my students’ mom passed away which lead him to drop everything and fly to the other side of the planet to be with his family…
And I remembered…
Email issues are laughable issues in the grand scheme of things.
When you’re feeling like you’re about ready to pull your hair out over the issues you’re facing in your life… try zooming out from your micro perspective and soaking in issues from a wider lens.
…Not because we want to think about bigger, badder, more heart-wrenching issues… but, because we want to gain perspective.
…So that we can ease our way back into our lives with a deeper sense of understanding and so we can revisit our “hair pulling issues” from a new head space.
…One that maybe puts “hair pulling issues” in air quotes and no longer has them bolded and underlined.