We went for a walk yesterday. It was overcast and gloomy in the morning and the forecast was rain all day. We were getting ready and just looking out of the windows I was wishing we hadn’t made the plans. It felt so depressing and hopeless, how can we have a good day in this wretched weather!
But we were meeting up with friends so we couldn’t just cancel everything last minute and stay home.
So we went. And it was foggy and wet, chilly and muddy.
My mood, though, was better. My spirits were lifted as we walked in the woodlands, watching the thick fog move like a gentle curtain through the air. The kids played happily in the mud. We found the best sheltered spot to have a picnic lunch and shared a cake and hot chocolate.
In the evening I thought to myself how much worse it would have been if we had stayed home.
This is a recurrent theme, I have noticed. Most times the things that I dread before actually doing them turn out alright in the end. Sometimes even brilliant. There are times when I feel relieved and happy that they are done. Other times though I wish I had done them sooner. Very rarely I wish I had skipped them and done nothing instead.
All this reminded me about the saying, you only regret the things you don’t do. Even on a gloomy day.
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