Take Notice Of Your Behaviour and You May Save Yourself Trouble.
Early yesterday morning I got a phone call from the Police telling me my car had been vandalised. The back passenger window had been smashed the driver’s dashboard had been ripped out, there was trash all over the inside of the car and of course glass everywhere. At first we thought the CD player and some CDs had been stolen but they were discovered amongst the trash in the car.
The insurance company were being awkward, the Police requested we not touch the car until they had inspected it, and the longer things went on the more I got wound up. Eventually my daughter said to me “let me sort it Mum, because you are starting to get upset and you will start shouting at people”. She was right, so I stepped away from the whole thing for an hour and occupied myself doing something else, once I felt my calm had returned I took up the reigns again.
The police inspector put a cover over the broken window and I know this was above and beyond his remit. The motor company who are going to replace the glass phoned me yesterday to say they didn’t have the right glass in stock and would have to order it in, the delay was frustrating but nothing I could do about it, they phoned me this morning again to let me know they won’t have the glass until tomorrow and after hearing what happened and the state of the car have offered to clean the car out for me and let me leave the car at their garage until the replacement glass arrives tomorrow again this is above and beyond what their usual remit is.
Now had my daughter not pointed out to me that I was starting to get upset with people, and had I not taken notice of her and stepped back and checked my behaviour I am sure these kindnesses wouldn’t have happened.
Quite often because we are frustrated by one person’s behaviour we take that frustration out on other people who are just trying to help us, if we can recognise the ones who are trying to help us and keep our calm with them we may just find they end up giving us more help than they normally would and certainly more than if we were treating them as if they were the ones who were to blame. Next time you start to loose your temper with someone just take a moment and ask yourself are they the ones to blame for your situation.
Blessings.