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Could Be Worse · Wanzology

Could Be Worse Howdy hey, howdy ho, howdy ey, how are ya? How's it going? Wuz happ’nen? Wuz happ’nen to another edition of WANZOLOGY, I'm your host, The Wanz, and on this Wednesday, man, I'm telling you, I had an epiphany last night right after something crappy happened. I know it was crappy because it snuck up on me. I was out last night riding my motorcycle, getting ready to come home. Right before I got on to start my motorcycle, I was putting my phone in a holder and I fumbled it and it hit the ground. Dang it! So I picked it up, click the button on the side, and the screen is not cracked. Okay? So I put it in the holder, tightened it down, started the bike, and started to hit the road. Wanted to turn on my favorite, which is the Pleasure radio station mix that I have on Pandora, but when I was swiping, nothing was happening. I needed to swipe to open the actual phone. You swipe and then enter in a code, and then everything opens, right? No, no, no, no, no, that's not what was happening. What was happening was I'd be swiping in nothing, nothing, nothing. So I pull over, take the phone outta the carrier, start messing with it. Yeah, I have now determined that the drop that happened earlier damaged the phone to the point where the touchscreen now doesn't work. And I just kind of sat for a second and kind of took that all in and just said, “Huh, well what do you know. Now what?” Now I sit. And I sat. I sat for a good 30 to 45 seconds, put the phone back in the holder and decided to go home, 'cause there was really nothing I could do out on the street. So I finally get home, take off all my gear, phone still doesn't work, so it's time to go to the inner webs and find a solution! Well, the first thing I found is how to ‘power cycle’, IE, turn the device off so that it reboots on, without having to swipe up and actually open the phone. So after the fourth time that that did not work, I just kind of said, “Oh, that's where we're at? Okay.” and went to bednd before I drifted off to sleep, I was wondering, “Now what am I gonna do tomorrow? Am I gonna try to get it fixed? And if I'm getting to get it fixed, I need to take it one place. Or am I going to replace the phone, which means I have to take it to another place.”’ After I woke up, I was not sure what I was gonna do, so I made breakfast, and while I was sitting eating breakfast, I was still contemplating what am I gonna do? Can I afford a new phone? How am I gonna pay for the repairs? Gaming all this out in my hand. I decided I would go for a walk, if nothing else, I wanna try to get my steps in for todayo I bounced. The local store that is my carrier was not open, and I got home, figured out that the second place I wanted to go didn't open for a while. So I jumped to the car anyway, took off, went to the other place, sat outside, waited for it to open. And when it opened, I presented my issue to the person that was helping me. They put it through a diagnostic only to figure out that the touchscreen doesn't work, “Really!! You know, that's why I came in here because the touch screen doesn't work!”’ “Yeah. I could see how that would be frustrating.” “Yeah, me too.” So then this person goes through, “Well, we can do this and this, and we have the parts in stock. It'll take about X amount of time and cost X amount of money.”’ and I said, “Okay, just because I'm curious would happen if I wanted to get a new phone?”’ So they walked through all the possibilities of that and blah, blah, blah, and I decided I was gonna get a new phone, 'cause to me, the way things are made these days, fixing something is gonna do more damage than just replacing it. That's kind of the nature of the consumer driven economy of the United States of America. So I was asked for password credentials that I didn't know, and without those, I couldn't actually purchase a new phone. Great. Had another idea, went to another store where my carrier is, got the information then it came back. Long story short, I finally got the new phone. Not the way that I wanted to get the new phone, but I got into the new phone and as I was coming back home after this wonderful three-hour tour, 'cause that's about what it was, I was wondering to myself, “Could it have been worse? Well, yeah, I mean, the screen wasn't broken, not even cracked. I dropped the phone and the touch screen stopped working, but the screen itself was not broken. None of the buttons on the side were broken. And what would've happened if I wouldn't have had the information required in order to get the information that was needed in order to make my phone accessible so that what was going on my old phone could get transferred to my new phone again, could have been worse. So after getting the phone and getting home, I thought about it for a good half an hour. Are there possibilities that this whole ordeal could have been worse? Absolutely. Now, I don't by any means think that I'm lucky that I had to go through whatever I went through. I just think it was my turn. Everybody gets a turn. Things happen all the time with all of us, but today I chose to start thinking about, hmm, what if. What if? Well, I was just thinking as bad as things are right now, they could be worse. Well, yeah, they sure could be. The whole world could be worse. And it's not like the world is like a goin gangbusters right now either, so when I started looking at how things were life’n in my life and applied the, ‘it could be worse’ tag, I was very grateful for what has already been and hopeful for what was coming, because Lord knows I do not want things to get worse. Part of me, of course, wants to anticipate that things might be worse, but is that predetermining my destiny? Is that making up a future that may or may not happen? I have no idea. There was a period of time when I would say, “Well, could be worse.”’ Lo and behold, things got worse! When I finally figured out that I was probably contributing to things getting worse, I stopped saying that. “Could be worse.”, man, It could always be worse. Doesn't matter what it is, could always be worse. So what's the lesson in that? Things are gonna get bad right before they get better. Right before they get good! And when they're good, sooner or later things are gonna be bad. It is the nature of things. Everything is temporary. So if you're on an upswing at the moment, great, I'm so happy for you. It's not going to last. As much as you want it to, it's not going to last. So then what? When life starts life’n on you, what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Because you can't really ‘change’ anything if it's outside your body. You can't ‘do’ anything about it, really. I mean, you can react to it, throw a tantrum, or go outside and pull weeds, I don't know, but you really can't ‘do’ anything about it. You can do everything you want to about how you react to ‘it’, but you really can't do anything about it other than decide how you're going to react. Well, therein lies the great power that human beings have, and that is the power of, you guessed it, choice. How you look at something, anything is controllable only and solely by you. Say you get caught out in a storm without a jacket. Without an umbrella, without a way of shielding yourself from the elements. Who's fault is that? Well yeah, it's yours. Maybe you missed the weather forecast. Maybe you didn't believe the weather forecast. Maybe you just decided that this was what was gonna be and this is what was gonna be, and you left it at that. All right. That's a choice you made and now you have to be responsible for it. Meaning you were caught in the elements ill-prepared. So now what? What you going to do? Well, you'll figure it out. Whatever's gonna be next is what you're gonna do. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I know what you're gonna do, I have no idea, nor is it any of my business what you do. My business is all about what I do, you see, and what are you gonna do? Hopefully the very best that you can. Hopefully you'll give yourself a break, realizing that you're human, realizing that sometimes things just happen a certain way. Hopefully, you'll give attention as much as is due to the situation, figure out some sort of solution and move the heck on. Don't you wish it was intuitive how to do that? It may look like a lot of people have it together and they can do that, but no, I'm pretty sure that everybody goes through the same process. You realize situations are a certain way. Then, you realize that that certain way is not the way you wanted it to be, then you start to feel a certain way. Now when you feel that certain way, well there are actions that come with that feeling. Isn't that great? Oh, wait, you mean those actions? You still have to be responsible for 'em. Uh, YAH! So if you say or do the wrong thing that's on you, once again, I'll remind you, it's about choice. What are you going to do? You can think about a lot of things, but what are you going to do? That is the question. That is the challenge! Could be worse. Man. there are so many ways that any one thing in our lives could be worse. Be grateful that they're not, and if they seem bad, this is where ‘could be worse’ applies, because you don't know what's going to happen, nobody does. So be prepared because it doesn't matter what situation you're in, it could be worse. Thanks for tuning in today. I appreciate you, I'm really happy, I'm gonna be happier. You go tell someone about this thang!! WANZOLOGY Podcast! Thanks for tuning in. I hope you have a dynamite day, a dynamite week, and I will see you next Wednesday. Ciao for now.