What makes a day bad?
What makes a day a day bad? Is it a series of events not going as planned? Is it a tragedy taking place? Is it just one bad moment that proves to be irritating or upsetting? The truth is, people profess to have a bad day quite often. I listened to my son tell me how he was having a terrible day. He described the problem in detail and through tears, and the problem - as he stated it - pointed to a moment of his day not being as fun as he had hoped. I listened to him (and tried to keep my patience), and when he was finished I tried to help him understand that he was just using the wrong words for his situation. It wasn’t a bad day; instead, it was a bad moment. Two things occurred to me during this conversation: How many times do I do the same thing (which may have resulted in my five-year-old copying my response)? How often do bad days really happen? Lois Lowry wrote an incredible book entitled The Giver . It was set in a dystopian society, where rules ...