With a job like mine, a full-fledged Sunday is not so usual. You get one - once a month, and twice a month if you're lucky.
This morning (a Sunday), I was in my room reading, when my phone rang flashing an unknown number. I answered the call and patiently answered the queries of a client who had somehow gotten hold of my personal mobile number and thought that 8:25am on a Sunday was the best time to ask for the lowest room rates she could get for her family's trip to Cebu in May.
After taking the call, I felt a rush of emotions that told me I was:
1. Annoyed - I was in the middle of reading a good book, and now the momentum and the buildup of the story was gone!
2. Disgusted - Does the sanctity of a rest day not exist anymore? Sunday morning at 8:25am is ridiculous for something that could wait until Monday.
3. Exasperated - Is the job still even worth it anymore?
4. Disturbed - Feeling that my Sunday morning was just ruined, I reluctantly got out of bed and put my book down and went to take a bath. Time for the day to start.
I am writing this blog post-bath, when I have calmed down and have had a good time and a great deal of water to think things over. That's when it dawned on me that I was hit by "wisdom on a Sunday morning" - as I have written in this post's title above.
How many times have I called a supplier at 12midnight because I had urgent things I needed rushed? How many times had I "disturbed" other people on their days off because of pending items that needed to be sorted out? How many times had I not had the courtesy to check first if the person was free to take my call instead of calling at an ungodly hour because I needed someone to converse with?
After much pondering, I wanted to rethink all the emotions I felt earlier and give my comments with this clearer head on my shoulders:
1. Annoyed - I was in the middle of reading a good book, and now the momentum and the buildup of the story was gone!
My book can wait. The story will always be there, and there will always be another time to continue what I was reading. I even still have the rest of this Sunday to even finish the entire book! The opportunity to take the time and respond to someone regarding something however, is an opportunity that will forever be lost to me had I not taken the call. Also, to refer back to the business, that would have been a business opportunity lost as well.
2. Disgusted - Does the sanctity of a rest day not exist anymore? Sunday morning at 8:25am is ridiculous for something that could wait until Monday.
Let's give everyone the benefit of the doubt. For all I know, the family might be sitting together at that exact moment, deciding on the final venue already. I am testimony to the fact that when you find yourself very hyped and caught in the excitement of the moment, you find yourself acting impulsively and dialing on the spot! I have had my own share of when I would call business partners way past office hours to ask for quotations because of a project I would get excited about, or to disturb suppliers because I had something urgent I needed to get accomplished for the following day - those kinds of things.
I am always apologetic, but in the end, I still do it. Can I not extend the same courtesy of accommodation that these people have given to me, to my own share of "disturbances"?
3. Exasperated - Is the job still even worth it anymore?
Is it not worth it? At the end of the day, we all need a job to support ourselves. Think of the less fortunate ones who do not even have a job, or those whose jobs involve having to do something they hate doing. Jobs that are degrading to human worth, and jobs that do not even pay back. Putting it in this perspective makes me realize that I am one of the lucky ones who get even just one Sunday off a month!
4. Disturbed - Feeling that my Sunday morning was just ruined, I reluctantly got out of bed and put my book down and went to take a bath. Time for the day to start.
It was about time for me to start doing other things I had to do anyway.
It amazes me how God always seem to put everything into perspective with little things that happen in our lives. Have a blessed Sunday everyone! :)
