Not upset about the broken air conditioner

When I was a teenager I got separated from my camping group during a hike and spent three days alone in the woods.

It was the most traumatic thing that had ever happened to me at the time, and twenty years later it still is! Since I like to look on the bright side of things, I chose to view that terrifying event in my life as the wellspring for perspective on life. When you are so convinced that you are going to die, then afterwards every day feels like a wonderful gift. I have tried to hold onto the feeling every single day. Two months ago, right in the dead of summer, my air conditioner stopped working. My roommates totally flipped out, started making phone calls, but the lack of AC really didn’t bother me too much. I had that deep perspective on life, so when I started to get upset about the cooling situation, that voice in my head would say “it’s not as bad as dying alone in the woods, is it?” That settles me right down. Of course I want the air conditioner to work, I love the air conditioner and am not trying to say I don’t want it fixed right away. I just realized deep down that being hot and not cooling off right away was not a very big problem in the grand scheme of life. In the worst case scenario where the AC was going to be broken for a few days, I could always just go crash at my sister’s house.
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