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5 lessons from facing the inevitable.
Everything happens for a reason. Here is what I got from getting locked out of my apartment.
It is impossible, for me, to not utilize every inconvenient, stressful moment as a learning opportunity. Once, my fiancé canceled our wedding two days before the actual wedding day, and my second response was, “I know a lesson will come from this.” My first reaction was taking a sledgehammer to our basement wall.
The other week, I locked myself out of my French apartment without my phone, and I knew lessons would be coming in abundance. It was too inconvenient for them not to. Surprisingly, most of these lessons I’ve already been introduced to. Multiple times. Perhaps this time, I’ve actually learned them.
If something that should be prevented is preventable, prevent it.
If you read this, you’ll see the timeline of how this situation was inevitable. I knew that putting my mailbox key on the keyring that I don’t use would, eventually, lead me to disaster. I was correct. If something inconvenient (like being without ALL technology in the middle of a workday when you have an event to host) is preventable, prevent it.
The lesson: If you think it, then do something about it because, yes, it will happen.