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> hoW are yOu on a FridaY?
Author: aLmich
"Today is a good day"
"How's it going?"
"It's a Friday!"
"It's a Friday!"
"Thank God it's Friday."
"I'm proud member of the TGIF club."
"At least it's payday."
For years I've heard people answer the above question with the above answers or not even pay attention to the question and answer with an "OK" in passing. Sometimes people would answer as if I had asked, "How you doin'?" That made me realize that they don't care enough to hear the question. I found myself doing the same thing more often than not.
I don't remember when but one day I realized that I was tired of the life I was leading myself into. Part of it was probably related to hearing the Chico and Delamar radio program. When asked by a caller how he was doing Chico answered "Better than I deserved." He thought about the answer so I decided to answer it myself.
How are you Al?
I thought about the negativity in most answers and decided to be positive. I started out by thinking about the crappy stuff that was making my life less than it should have been.
I found that my life was pretty good. I have an awesome family. A job I love. Friends. Leisure time. Hobbies. I had a good life. The things in my days that were negative were fleeting. After some light research, I found that amongst time with family, time working, time sleeping, and general crappyness, most of my day was good. Very little was that bad. Okay, so most days are good days.
I found that my life was pretty good. I have an awesome family. A job I love. Friends. Leisure time. Hobbies. I had a good life. The things in my days that were negative were fleeting. After some light research, I found that amongst time with family, time working, time sleeping, and general crappyness, most of my day was good. Very little was that bad. Okay, so most days are good days.
Then I came up with an internal scale of days. A great day on my scale is a day of "payday". Another great day is when I was in love. The terrible day on my scale is when we found out that Eric had lung cancer. I know days can get worse, but that's my current scale.
Most days on that scale are pretty good. I have a good life filled with good days.
Most days on that scale are pretty good. I have a good life filled with good days.
So now, when people ask me how I am doing or a related question, I stop and think about the day so far. I think about the my expectations for the rest of the day. I think about my scale. And I answered, "Today is a good day", or at least I'm prompting myself to.
It's amazing how many people stop after hearing that response. Then they ask me why. It's easy to find something that made today good. Some days it may be that I woke up alive again. I have days like that too.
I've been doing this for few months now. And I am hearing other people say it now. And I am seeing people smile when they say it; when they hear it.
The real point is that I am reminded by my own response every time I say it.
The real point is that I am reminded by my own response every time I say it.
Today is a good day.
Ate Erlynn and I had itlog and pancit canton for breakfast, Roan with her Haniku doing the pamamalengke, Venus Williams and Sharapova on cable, Dai cramming for school... what more can I ask for? Saya ng buhay, buksan mooooooo...
Happy... it's so nice to be happy... it's so nice... [the music plays on and on and on]
