Off (May 1)

There are days in life when you are just off your game. You stub your toe because you are inches off of your normal path from the bed to the bathroom in the morning. You spill some of your breakfast down your shirt because your mouth somehow moved a fraction of an inch in either direction from where it normally is. Then of course driving is an interesting task where you likely miss your turn, and hopefully you don't drive through a fence or something much worse. It is near impossible to me on your game, thinking clearly and acting exactly as you would like every day of your life and there will be some days that are just off. In the moment it is frustrating but the sooner you learn to laugh at it and shrug it off the better that off day will be and the more fun it will be as well. To dwell on what is off is to take your mind off of what is coming next or what you are doing in the moment thus causing the drift between where you should be and where you are to grow increasingly larger. If you were to throw a ball and the ball could roll forever, it would be important to throw the ball at the exact angle you wanted everytime. So you decide to throw a ball from Los Angeles to New York City. Well if this ball started off on a course that was just one degree off, the further the ball traveled the further off course it would look. But if you were to stop the ball when you noticed that it was off and were able to throw it from there on a new and correct angle you would then get to your intended target. That is the effect that laughing at yourself on an off day can have.