Day 2
Thursday, April 12
I woke up this morning feeling a lot of pressure. What was I going to do today? Plotting out "what, who and how" I'm finding is quite stressful. The other day I wrote my friend an appreciation letter expecting to feel flooded with emotions, tears and quite frankly, I wanted to scrunch it all up and toss it in the trash. I felt like I was telling her versus showing her. You know what I mean?
Today I was meeting a long lost friend for lunch. We've actually only known each other for a short time but you know when you feel a connection with someone and you know you'll be friends? Well, she's that sorta friend.
Now, I normally bring my lunch to work or when I want to splurge, I grab my Subway sandwich (with coupon in tow). So when my girlfriend wanted to go to a fancy restaurant I could feel my wallet tugging at me saying, "now Stacy...you have bills to pay, you have college to save for...isn't eating here a bit irresponsible?" I hate that voice...the voice of reason.
You know those times and places when you splurge when you shouldn't? This was one of those places.
We dined, we laughed and I even lived it up with an Arnold Palmer. When the bill came, she said she was buying!
For all I know, she'll put it on her expense report but still, it was a nice and unexpected surprise.
So you're asking what did I do? I wrote her a true, heartfelt thank you note. I wrote it slowly, thoughtfully and genuinely.
How will it make her feel:
Hopefully good
How did it make me feel:
Good! It was nice to feel my gratitude and not just tell her
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