~:[CH13 - Day 95]:~ The 180

 
~:[CH13 - Day 95]:~ The 180

After practice in the morning, I headed out to pick up my friend. I offered my services as otherwise, I would be working on a few things at home. While driving, I wasn't able to take the onramp at the freeway interchange and thus, I had to detour and turn around at the next exit. It was only about a mile or so away, but of course, it was the heaviest portion of the drive, adding about ten minutes to a thirty minute drive. Still yet, I was happy to have taken the break, as I had some time to catch up and just relax again. It was a nice mental break from working at home and energized me as I worked for the rest of the day. I started with cooking up some chicken soup for my family and then focused in the computer to design some headers for the albums that I just wrapped up. It's always exciting to work on these, but they don't always come so easily. Sometimes, I am working on a design and completely scrap it, take a 180, and do something completely different. Sometimes it fails and I go back to what I was working on and other times, it ends up like this. I was happy with how this came out and found myself finishing up more things than I had planned originally. I was a bit sad as I thought about the limited time remaining in our break, but also glad that during this stretch, there is so much that I accomplished. While I thought I might end up vegetating around the house during the break, I was happy to take that 180 and find myself being more productive than ever, as I wrap up one item after the next on my checklist. While we may have a direction in mind in our own lives, don't be afraid to take that 180, as while some people may see it as going backwards, I often see it as a route to new opportunities that we may have missed along the way. Even if it feels we're not going anywhere in life or even backtracking, just remember that we all take different paths and we should never worry about the way that others want us to progress, rather take our own time and find our own direction in our own lives.