~:[CH15 - Day 227]:~ It Was the Best of Times ...

 

~:[CH15 - Day 227]:~ It Was the Best of Times ...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The mad rush of people at the start came when the disorganized opening of the event happened. I did my best to avoid it and ended up surviving. The day itself went well. In the morning I met a wonderful mother-daughter pair who chatted with me about various artists and experiences. It was great to connect with such nice people as often, I quietly go about my day. Strangely enough, as I was checking on that same pair after the opening chaos, the person near me saw their icon and asked if I knew them. It was their friend they talked about while we were chatting. It was great to connect with three wonderful people who made the day itself go by so quickly. Ultimately, the performances and experience went well and I was impressed by how I have been holding up these past few days. While there were some crummy experiences here and there, they were fair outweighed by the great experiences I found along the way. When you open yourself up to the world around you, you'll get a mixed bag of experiences, but with the right mindset, you can hopefully connect with more positives than negatives. As Charles Dickens wrote about duality, such is life and it's all a matter of how we handle it that will determine how we see it at the end of the day. At times, it may have felt like the worst of times, but int he end, today was one of the best.