Do you jump to conclusions?
Do you escalate things in your head before anything has actually happened?
When you are resting in the in-between or battling unknowns, do you run through multiple scenarios of what could go epically wrong in your head?
Oh boy, I do.
Here’s a little fun poem I wrote to remind me (and you if you need it):
Let’s take a beat and concentrate only on what we KNOW to be true in the moment.
And for gosh sakes, beware of the cheetah!
BEWARE OF THE CHEETAH
I sent a text
just yesterday
that got
no immediate
reply.
So, of course,
my mind
went absolutely
wild!
First I thought
there must have been
some random glitch
that showed
the text
“delivered”
while really
my words
were just
hanging out
stuck
somewhere
in the great, big
invisible “cloud”.
And then,
of course,
I couldn’t help
but imagine that
while the text
was hanging out
somewhere
DEEP in space,
a big, orange,
and very hungry
cheetah dashed
across the sky.
It seemed plausible
after all.
I figured
this hungry,
and maybe even
lonely cheetah
entered the “cloud”
and quickly devoured
each and every letter
of each and every word
until my text
was nothing more
than a few
stray punctuation marks.
It seemed quite probable
after all.
So I debated
do I send
the text again?
After all,
like me,
the recipient
didn’t see that
big, orange,
terribly hungry cheetah
coming.
But just as I
started retyping
the first few
incredibly important
and oh so urgent
words,
I saw a reply.
A short
but quite
informative
O.K.
And all was right
with the world.
