2. Murphy’s Law can show us what’s really important.
My husband and I planned a fairly expensive, all-inclusive honeymoon to Mexico about a year after we got married. We had been counting down the days for months, staring in awe at pictures of the resort, and planning out our days on the beach. Then, a few days before we were scheduled to leave, he got a call from work. They needed him to come in the next week, meaning our vacation would need to be canceled. We ended up having to spend nearly a thousand dollars to go on the same trip, a week later.
I was angry and upset about the financial burden and having to make so many complicated last-minute changes in our plans (I’ve never spent so long on the phone), but my always patient husband reminded me, “At the end of the day, it’s just money.” We still got to go on our trip and enjoyed the rare time we had to spend together just the two of us, which was much more memorable than the complications getting there.
After about a year of letting myself get upset about the canceled plans and unwelcome surprises, I realized that I was wasting precious time I could be spending with my husband worrying about the next thing that could go wrong. Now, I try to soak up every moment I can get, planned or not.
