My car died back in May. Ann’s car just died on Friday. Suddenly we’ve gone from a two-car household to a couple in need of a bus pass.
Fortunately, Ann lives and works along a busline, so our daily routine is barely disrupted. She still leaves for work and comes home around the same time, I work from home and make dinner, and we both walk the dog in the evening. Sure, our freedom for shopping or going out with friends is temporarily limited, but our world hasn’t imploded either. We’re just biding our time, crunching some numbers and researching our options for buying a new car. Our lives will be back to normal in a week or two.
And yet, if you’d told us back in April that both of our cars would be DOA by September, we’d have complained, bargained and panicked: Anything but that! Anything but an unplanned change to our lives! Anything but INCONVENIENCE!
Why is it that we perpetually forget how easy it is to adapt to just about anything? Maybe if we all had a little reminder from time to time, we wouldn’t get so anxious when it comes time for those traditional harbingers of doom like car inspections, annual reviews, election season or the nightly news.
Tags: perception, personal
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Norm
